The Five Personality Traits as the Distal Predictors of Road Accident Involvement

Personality characteristics are believed to play a critical role in accident involvement. This study used the five factor model (FFM) as the overreaching representative of personality characteristics in predicting aberrant driving behavior and accident involvement. The FFM has been shown as a superordinate typology of "Big Five" stable, relatively orthogonal and overarching personality dimensions, each consisting of a number of sub-facets: (1) neuroticism (tendency to experience negative affect and anxiety), (2 )extraversion (warmth, excitement seeking), (3) agreeableness (helpfulness, trust), (4) conscientiousness (dependability, responsibility), self discipline, (5) openness (adventurousness, broadmindedness). As a comprehensive trait model of personality, the FFM has been widely applied in predicting various outcome variables from organizational behaviors to accident involvement. The results demonstrated that all five personality factors had indirect effects on accident risk through their effects on aberrant driving behavior. Predictive power of the personality variables and variances explained were moderately strong and consistent with expectations.

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• Authors:
  • Simer, Nebi
  • Lajunen, Timo
  • Oezkan, Tuerker
• Conference:
  • International Conference of Traffic and Transport Psychology
  • Location: Nottingham , England
  • Date: 2004-9-0 to 2004-9-0
• Publication Date: 2005

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 215-227
• Monograph Title: Traffic and Transport Psychology: Theory and Application. Proceedings of the ICTTP 2004

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Anxiety; Behavior; Forecasting; High risk drivers; Human factors; Orthogonality; Personality; Psychological trust
• Uncontrolled Terms: Characteristics; Dependence; Responsibility
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01006544
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0080443796
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 28 2005 10:53AM