Research Article

Effect of High-Altitude Environment on Driving Safety: A Study on Drivers’ Mental Workload, Situation Awareness, and Driving Behaviour

Table 2

Results of internal consistency and statistics.

Dimensions (Cronbach’s alpha)Items (notation)High-altitude groupLow-altitude group
Mean (std. D)Mean (std. D)

SA (0.856)AD (0.869)Instability of situation (s11)6.247 (2.102)5.589 (1.981)
Complexity of situation (s12)6.169 (2.225)5.868 (1.947)
Variability of situation (s13)6.225 (2.206)5.997 (1.903)
AS (0.806)Arousal of situation (s21)6.534 (2.071)7.114 (1.807)
Division of attention (s22)6.301 (2.026)7.399 (1.797)
Spare mental capacity (s23)6.284 (1.978)6.557 (1.698)
Concentration of attention (s24)6.927 (1.768)6.328 (1.843
SU (0.771)Information quantity (s31)5.596 (2.404)6.689 (1.658)
Information quality (s32)6.239 (1.839)6.645 (1.742)
Familiarity (s33)6.208 (1.996)6.786 (1.806)