SOME ASPECTS OF SUICIDE AMONG MOTOR CAR DRIVERS

ASPETE ALE SUICIDULUI LA CONDUCATORII AUTO

Suicide may be considered a social phenomenon progressively increasing with the degree of civilization. In motor car accidents, apart from external conditions, an essential role may be attributed to psychological factors. Imprudence, incriminated as the main cause of accidents, implies emotive, nervous or impulsive subjects, deprived of the capacity of a prompt and efficient decision. From this imprudence one might reach its interpretation as a tendency to suicide, or an equivalent of the latter, or a disguised or dissimulated suicide, or in very rare cases a individual inclination towards accidents", of the development of a "pattern" of repeated accidents. Our observations are based upon examinations by psychological tests of 12 psycholphatic and neurotic subjects. The questionnaire with 20 questions concerned the "tendency to risk", "the need of evasion", "non-conformism". The TAT test was applied for revealing the suicidal potential and the verbal associative test for detecting a depressive complex. Depression was also made evident by the affective resonance and increase in the reaction time to affectogenic words. The results show the necessity of taking certain practical measures such as the psychological and psychical examination of drivers, which may be considered as a preventive measure both for the drivers themselves and for those around them. /Author/

• Corporate Authors:

  Uniunea Societatilor de Sticnte Medicale

  Str. Progressului No. 8
  Bucharest,   Romania 
• Authors:
  • Damian, N
  • Rascanu, R
• Publication Date: 1973

Language

• Undetermined

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 263-268
• Serial:
  • Neurologia, Psihiatria, Neurochirurgua
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue Number: 3

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Crash causes; Drivers; Driving tests; High risk drivers; Suicide; Testing
• Old TRIS Terms: Driver psychology
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00084785
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Safety Council Safety Research Info Serv
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 2 1975 12:00AM