THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL DRIVING STYLE INVENTORY - SCALE CONSTRUCT AND VALIDATION

This study focuses on the conceptualization of a person's habitual driving style as a specific factor that can explain involvement in a traffic accident and also mediate the effects of more general sociodemographic and personality factors. For the study, 328 participants from various geographical areas in Israel who owned a vehicle and drove on a regular basis volunteered to participate. Driving style was assessed by the multidimensional driving style inventory (MDSI) which was constructed for this study to tap the four hypothesized domains of driving: reckless and careless; anxious; patient and careful; and angry and hostile. The study found significant association between these 8 factors: dissociative, anxious, risky, high velocity, distress reduction, patient, and careful.

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• Authors:
  • Taubman-Ben-Ari, O
  • Mikulincer, M
  • Gillath, O
• Publication Date: 2004-5-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 323-332
• Serial:
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Volume: 36
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0001-4575
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Demographics; Driver categories; High risk drivers; Human factors; Multidimensional flow; Personality; Reckless drivers
• Geographic Terms: Israel
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00973600
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: May 3 2004 12:00AM