Development of a structural model of driving behaviors based on mindfulness with the mediation of emotion regulation

The purpose of this study was to develop a structural model of driving behaviors based on mindfulness mediated by emotion regulation.Using cluster sampling, 917 drivers were selected from three provinces of Tehran, West Azerbaijan and Kurdistan. Manchester Questionnaire (1990), Freiburg mindfulness Questionnaire (2001) and Gross and John emotion regulation questionnaire (1998) were used to measure driving behaviors. In order to provide a simple picture of the relationships between the multiple variables of the research, the correlation matrix of the main variables of the research was calculated and then to test the hypothesis model, the structural relationships between the research variables were obtained through statistical method of structural equation modeling. The results showed that the models of measuring the studied variables and the structural model of driving behaviors based on mindfulness mediated by emotion regulation had a good fit. Mindfulness also had a direct effect on driving behavior of drivers. The emotion regulation variable could not play a mediating role between sensation seeking and driving behavior.