Psychological Suitability for Urban Rail Transit Drivers: Scale Development and Validation

Due to the complex transportation lines and complex tasks of urban rail transit, drivers have high work intensity, high physiological and psychological load, and heavy safety responsibility burden. However, there is no pre-employment mental health assessment specifically for urban rail transit drivers. In this way, ordinary interviews and psychological assessments alone cannot effectively guarantee the driver’s safe driving adaptability. In this regard, based on in-depth interviews with 40 professionals in urban rail transit, this article uses Grounded theory to conduct qualitative analysis, summarizes a 6-dimensional model of urban rail transit drivers’ psychological fitness state, and develops a measurement scale based on this. Reliability and validity were verified through large-scale questionnaire data collection. The results show that the measurement scale has high reliability and validity.