Driving anxiety:
Driving anxiety comes in all grades with nearly 1 million Dutch people. In today's age when travel is important and people often rely on private transport is the fear of driving a serious problem. Driving anxiety can occur after an incident or psychological problems but in most cases the uncertainty caused by a progressive lack of routine traffic. Who has driving anxiety is missing survey in traffic and get the feeling to lose control of himself and the traffic.
Statistics:
In the Netherlands, nearly seven million people have a license. The half is ever nervous or anxious behind the wheel (Kernel numbers Personal Transport 2004). This means that in certain situations they mainly affected by the additional uncertainty and nervousness. Approximately one million people have really driving anxiety in the true sense of the word and half million Dutch avoids driving. Of the people with driving anxiety is 95% of the female sex.
Causes:
A lack of driving experience and routine leads many people to eventually driving anxiety. When one is driving to shrink, they postpone it more and more, until ultimately given to the bridal. The mountain is becoming increasingly higher and higher.
Fears are emotions which are linked on the perception of risk. When danger threatens, most people feel anxious. Every person barrel on anxiety in its own way. What one experiences as fear, is for the other acceptable. A fear reaction to a actually threatening situation is called real fear. Real fear has a protective function with the impulse behavior: flight, fight or freeze.
Anxiety disorder:
If the fear is no longer in proportion to the real danger, one can speak of anxiety or an anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of intense fear. Approximately 15% of the Dutch population suffer from an anxiety disorder, the most common psychiatric disorder.
Panic:
Panic is a limited period of intense anxiety, various symptoms which occur suddenly and reach a maximum within ten minutes. Read more…
Source: "Together on Road", Elshout-Karin van Gaal (Platform Transport Counseling).
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Common symptoms of panic:
Palpitations, sweating, trembling or shaking, chills or hot flushes
shortness of breath or choking chest pain, nausea or abdominal discomfort
dizziness or faintness, fear of losing self-control
Often they fear a new attack. This "fear of fear" is characteristic of people with panic disorder.
Driving anxiety from fear of failure:
Driving anxiety can be both positive and negative. With positive fear of failure one performs extra well when they are stressed. While with negative fear of failure stress level is too high to even be able to perform. Furthermore you can divide fear of failure into 3 groups:
- Cognitive: because one is too nervous they cannot go back to the knowledge and skills that they have acquired;
- Social: what will others think?
- Motor: blocking of practical skills.
Unfortunately, fear of failure and perfectionism go hand in hand. This group wants to drive as it should and expects that others also keep themselves to the (traffic) rules. If it does not happen and they cannot run as it should, does it make insecure and anxious and may lead to driving anxiety.
When do you have fear of failure for the driving exam?
There is no driving exam fear if you're nervous because you're not quite ready for the exam. For example, because you really have not had enough lessons. Or because you did not had a click with your driving instructor. Therefore pay enough attention to find a good driving school and driving instructor. Tips about this you get on this website and through www.rijschoolgegevens.nl.
There is also no fear of failure for the driving test if you suffer from anxiety as trait / personality. On the Internet you can find a lot information about this, among other www.faalangst.nl. There you will find a test that measures whether you suffer from it, and what you can do about it.
Naturally, our instructors have other tests to work with to find out whether you're anxious failure
