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Are aggressive people aggressive drivers? A study of the relationship between self-reported general aggressiveness, driver anger and aggressive driving
Date
2001-03-01
Author
Lajunen, T
Parker, D
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In this study the relationships among self-reported general aggressiveness, impulsiveness, driver anger, and aggressive responses to anger-provoking situations on the road were studied. The British version of a driver anger scale (UK DAS), aggression questionnaire (AQ), and an impulsiveness questionnaire (17) together with background questions (gender, age, annual mileage) were administered to a sample of 270 British drivers. Variation in strength of correlations between anger and aggressive reactions in the 21 UK DAS items showed that the relationship between driver anger and aggression depends in part on the characteristics of the situation. In addition, three path models for describing the relationships among the measures were constructed separately for women and men. The models suggested that the effects of verbal aggressiveness on self-reported driver aggression were mediated by driver anger whereas physical aggressiveness was directly related to aggressive behaviour. Age was negatively related to both driver anger and aggression among men whereas annual mileage was negatively related to aggression among women. The models constructed indicate that aggressive driver behaviour is a complex phenomenon with a range of psychological causes.
Subject Keywords
Self-report
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Driver anger
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Aggressive driving
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Aggression questionnaire
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Impulsiveness
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Gender differences
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/64553
Journal
ACCIDENT ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0001-4575(00)00039-7
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T. Lajunen and D. Parker, “Are aggressive people aggressive drivers? A study of the relationship between self-reported general aggressiveness, driver anger and aggressive driving,”
ACCIDENT ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION
, pp. 243–255, 2001, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/64553.