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Volume 11, Issue 4 (Iranian Journal of Ergonomics- In Press - 2024)
Iran J Ergon 2024, 11(4): 0-0 |
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Abdi H, Zakerian S A, Azam K, Khanlari Baniyarani P. Determining the mental workload and investigating its effect on changing the mood components of taxi drivers in the city of Qazvin. Iran J Ergon 2024; 11 (4)
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1- Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2- Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , zakerian@tums.ac.ir
3- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2- Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , zakerian@tums.ac.ir
3- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Background and Objectives: Among the most important concerns of today's societies are road accidents, damages and casualties related to them. Mental workload is one of the main human factors that can cause other factors such as stress and anger. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the mental workload and its effect on changing components of drivers' moods.
Methods: 88 tour taxi drivers of Qazvin city participated in this study to investigate the desired components. Dolly's mental load questionnaire was used to evaluate mental load and POM's questionnaire was used to measure drivers' mood components. Based on the designed scenario of driving in high-traffic roads, the desired variables were evaluated, and in order to check the relationship between them, paired t-test and Pearson correlation analysis were used in SPSS version 24 software.
Results: The average work history and age of the drivers were 46.60 and 13.47 years with a standard deviation of 10.12 and 9.39 years. The obtained findings showed that by driving in high-traffic roads, the average mental workload of drivers increased many times and this increase was significant (P<0.001). With the increase on mental workload of the drivers, from some mood components that have a positive aspect (such as happiness and vitality) (r=- 0.143) (p=0.157), (r=- 0.646) (p= 0.050) decreased and the mood component of drivers' depression was increased (r= 0.020) (p = 0.248*).
Conclusion: Based on the findings of the study, it was concluded that with the continuation of the driving activity, the amount of mental workload of the drivers increased, but there was no correlation regarding the effect of this component on the mood components.
Methods: 88 tour taxi drivers of Qazvin city participated in this study to investigate the desired components. Dolly's mental load questionnaire was used to evaluate mental load and POM's questionnaire was used to measure drivers' mood components. Based on the designed scenario of driving in high-traffic roads, the desired variables were evaluated, and in order to check the relationship between them, paired t-test and Pearson correlation analysis were used in SPSS version 24 software.
Results: The average work history and age of the drivers were 46.60 and 13.47 years with a standard deviation of 10.12 and 9.39 years. The obtained findings showed that by driving in high-traffic roads, the average mental workload of drivers increased many times and this increase was significant (P<0.001). With the increase on mental workload of the drivers, from some mood components that have a positive aspect (such as happiness and vitality) (r=- 0.143) (p=0.157), (r=- 0.646) (p= 0.050) decreased and the mood component of drivers' depression was increased (r= 0.020) (p = 0.248*).
Conclusion: Based on the findings of the study, it was concluded that with the continuation of the driving activity, the amount of mental workload of the drivers increased, but there was no correlation regarding the effect of this component on the mood components.
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Received: 2023/12/10 | Accepted: 2024/01/30 | ePublished: 2024/01/30
Received: 2023/12/10 | Accepted: 2024/01/30 | ePublished: 2024/01/30
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