Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science (대한안전경영과학회지)

Korea Safety Management & Science (대한안전경영과학회)
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The Relationship between Depression, Cognitive Failure, Mistakes, and Accidents of the Train Drivers: The Moderating Effect of Self-Efficacy

철도기관사의 우울증세, 인지실패, 실수와 사고 간의 관계: 자기효능감의 조절효과

  • Received : 2013.10.20
  • Accepted : 2013.12.20
  • Published : 2013.12.31
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Abstract

In Korean society, the theme of human errors in railway has been emerging as a critical issue. As far as human error studies are concerned, main trend has been inclined to be led by industrial engineering and systems science. Apart from those trends, this study empirically highlighted the relationship between depression, which has been a frequent research subject in the medical science and psychology, and accidents, with setting depression as an exogenous variable and cognitive failure and mistake as endogenous variables, respectively. Results of hypotheses test for the 204 respondents showed that driver's depression has a significant effect on accidents mediated by cognitive failure and mistake. This findings suggest the need for exploring the diverse latent factors causing human errors and for understanding the complex cognitive process as well as for establishing integrative countermeasures to mitigate human errors.

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