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Daniel Cox and Ann Lambert

THRIVE TO DRIVE: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PHYSICAL FITNESS, EXECUTIVE FUNCTION, AND ADOLESCENT DRIVING SAFETY. Daniel Cox and Ann Lambert. Complacency, thy name is collisions. In 2007 Israel was shocked to learn they had 397 vehicular fatalities

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Daniel Cox and Ann Lambert

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  1. THRIVE TO DRIVE: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PHYSICAL FITNESS, EXECUTIVE FUNCTION, AND ADOLESCENT DRIVING SAFETY Daniel Cox and Ann Lambert

  2. Complacency, thy name is collisions In 2007 Israel was shocked to learn they had 397 vehicular fatalities In 2009 Israel activated a national behavioral intervention that reduced their annual fatalities by 26% In the US in 2008 there were 350,000+ fatalities and 15+ million injuries annually solely in the 15-29 age group, and there is no national campaign

  3. Kudos to YouthNEX and our colleagues for taking this seriously and supporting our work! Patrick Tolan, Ph.D. Ann Lambert, Ph.D. Daniel Cox, Ph.D. Ron Reeves, Ph.D Joe Allen, Ph.D. Art Weltman, Ph.D. John Sirard,Ph.D.

  4. Premise: Novice driver collisions are due to inexperience and poor judgment Primary hypothesis: Poor judgment is equivalent to under-developed executive functioning which leads to risky and dangerous driving. Secondary hypothesis: Executive functioning is, in part, driven by physical fitness.

  5. THE PROBLEM

  6. ADOLESCENTS AND RISK • Teens take more risks • Automobile accidents • Binge drinking • Contraceptive use • Crime WHY?

  7. ADOLESCENTS AND RISK • Are teens more: • Irrational? • Prone to delusions of invulnerability? • Ignorant?

  8. SOME SCIENCE BEHIND THE PROBLEM • Probably not. • Logic/reasoning abilities, risk perception, risk salience of teens comparable to adults (Reyna & Farley 2006; Steinberg 2010). • Psychosocial capacities of adolescents differ: • Impulse control • Emotion regulation • Delay of gratification • Resistance to peer influence • Executive Function

  9. EXECUTIVE FUNCTION “Psychologists would rather share toothbrushes than definitions of Executive Function.”

  10. EXECUTIVE FUNCTION The ability to employ parallel processing and working memory that allows us to anticipate consequences, inhibit impulses, plan ahead, problem solve, and be creative in our interaction with the world.

  11. BREAKING THAT DOWN • Controlled Processing • Organization and coordination of sub-processes • Prefrontal Cortex = Goal Maintenance • Anterior Cigulate Cortex = Error Monitoring • EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS: • Inhibition • Planning • Problem Solving

  12. ADOLESCENT BRAIN DEVELOPMENT 30 years 7-young adulthood Frontal Cortex Development 3-5 years 1-3 years 0-1 years 20 40

  13. BRAIN DEVELOPMENT AND FATAL CRASHES

  14. DRIVING AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTION • Geriatric populations • On-road • Driving simulation • See Bieliaukas, 2005 • Adolescents • Driving simulation • Mantyla et al., 2009

  15. EXECUTIVE FUNCTION, ADOLESCENT RISK-TAKING AND DRIVING The Perfect Storm: underdeveloped frontal cortex + presence of peers = risk/benefit analysis

  16. EXERCISE AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTION • Older Adults (Kramer & Colcombe, 2003) • Children: Best 2010, Davis et al., 2011

  17. RESEARCH GOAL • Investigate the role executive function plays in general risk-taking and driving-specific risky behaviors of novice drivers, as well as the role physical activity and fitness play in the maturation of EF ability.

  18. MODEL

  19. RESEARCH PLAN

  20. EXERCISE • Physical Fitness: • VO2-Max • Physical Activity: • G-S recall • ActiGraph accelerometers

  21. EXECUTIVE FUNCTION • General EF • Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS) • Operation Span (OSPAN) • Driving-specific EF • Novel in-simulator test • divided attention, • selective attention, • dual processing, • response inhibition, • working memory

  22. DRIVING PERFORMANCE & MISHAPS • Tactical Driving Simulation Test (during 2nd visit) • Instructor on-road ratings • 1st six months of independent driving • Text message once a month

  23. RISK • General • Youth Risk Behavior Survey • Core Alcohol and Drug Survey • Self-Reported Delinquency • Driving-Specific • Cox Assessment of Risky Driving Scale (CARDS)

  24. SUMMARY OF PREDICTIONS • Physical activity and physical fitness will positively influence General EF. • General EF will lead to Driving-Specific EF. • General EF will predict general risk-taking. • Driving-Specific EF will predict Risky Driving. • Risky driving will predict future driving mishaps over the first six months. These data will serve as preliminary studies for a larger, experimentally based NIH proposal.

  25. To follow up, contact • Daniel J. Cox, djc4f@virginia.edu • Ann Lambert, ael4n@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu

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