relation: https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/54679/
title: Mobile phone use while driving: the role of driving self-regulation
creator: Lazuras, Lambros
creator: Poulter, Damian
creator: Ypsilanti, Antonia
creator: Hawkins, Oliver
creator: Rowe, Richard
subject: BF Psychology
subject: H Social Sciences (General)
subject: HE Transportation and Communications
description: Driving-specific self-regulation has been associated with risky driving behaviour. The present research examined, for the first time, the relationship of driving-specific self-regulation with mobile phone use while driving across two survey-based studies in the United Kingdom. Study 1 (N = 296) showed that driving-specific self-regulation was significantly associated with both texting and calling while driving, over and above the effects of other predictors. Domain-general self-regulation was indirectly associated with texting while driving, through driving-specific self-regulation. Study 2 (N = 309) showed that driving-specific self-regulation was negatively associated with mind wandering while driving. Mind wandering was positively related to both calling and texting while driving, but this relationship was moderated by driving-specific self-regulation. The association of mind wandering and texting was weaker for higher levels of driving-specific self-regulation (B = −0.127, p = .019). Driving-specific self-regulation presents a theoretically relevant construct for the study of behaviours that contribute to distracted driving, such as mobile phone use.
publisher: Elsevier
date: 2026-10-01
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
rights: cc_by_nc_nd_4
identifier: https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/54679/7/54679%20POULTER_Mobile_Phone_Use_While_Driving_%28OA%29_2026.pdf
identifier:   Lazuras, Lambros, Poulter, Damian, Ypsilanti, Antonia, Hawkins, Oliver and Rowe, Richard  (2026) Mobile phone use while driving: the role of driving self-regulation.  Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour, 123:103834.   ISSN 1369-8478 (Print), 1873-5517 (Online)       (doi:10.1016/j.trf.2026.103834 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2026.103834>)  
relation: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2026.103834
relation: 10.1016/j.trf.2026.103834