STYLE, PERSONALITY AND ACCIDENTS

THE ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE INFLUENCES OF INDIVIDUAL PERSONALITY AND STYLE ON ACCIDENT RISK. IT IS OBSERVED THAT RESEARCHERS SOME YEARS AGO DEVELOPED THE CONCEPT KNOWN AS "ACCIDENT PRONENESS". MORE RECENTLY THIS TERM HAS BECOME LESS ACCEPTED. ALTHOUGH IN ANY ONE PERIOD OF TIME SOME PEOPLE WILL HAVE MORE ACCIDENTS THAN OTHERS, THIS ACCIDENT PRONE GROUP IS NOT STABLE. PEOPLE WHO ARE ACCIDENT REPEATERS IN ONE PERIOD OF TIME WILL PROBABLY NOT BE IN ANOTHER. THIS HAS MADE THE SEARCH FOR A PERSONALITY TYPE TO EXPLAIN ACCIDENT LIABILITY LESS VALID. MORE RECENT WORK HAS CONCENTRATED ON STYLE IN HANDLING VEHICLES - STUDYING THE "INERT-OVERACTIVE" CONTINUUM AND THE PHENOMENON OF DISSOCIATION. THE ARTICLE SEES RE-TRAINING AS A MORE HOPEFUL METHOD FOR THE FUTURE THAN THE MERE HYPOTHESIS OF ALLEGED "ACCIDENT-PRONENESS".

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• Authors:
  • Reason, J
• Publication Date: 1974-2-21

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 445-448
• Serial:
  • New Society
  • Volume: 27
  • Issue Number: 594
  • Publisher: IPC Magazine Limited
  • ISSN: 0028-6729

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash exposure; Crashes; Dissociation; Driver improvement programs; High risk drivers; Personality; Retraining
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 2279: Accident proneness; 2258: Personality; 1591: Retraining of drivers
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00081092
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 8 1975 12:00AM