PERSONALITY, ATTITUDES AND RISK PERCEPTION AS PREDICTORS OF RISKY DRIVING BEHAVIOR AMONG YOUNG DRIVERS

This paper integrates the personality trait and social cognition approaches in order to understand mechanisms underlying young driver's risk-taking behavior in traffic. 1,932 adolescents in Norway responded to self-completion questionnaire surveys. Measures of risk perception, attitudes toward traffic safety, and self-reported risk-taking in traffic were included. Personality measures were aggression, altruism, anxiety, and normlessness. Results of a structural equation model suggested the relation between the personality traits and risk driving behavior was mediated through attitudes. On this basis, it was concluded that personality primarily influences risky driving behavior indirectly through affecting the attitudinal determinants of the behavior. Practical implications for traffic safety campaigns are also discussed.

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• Authors:
  • Ulleberg, P
  • Rundmo, T
• Publication Date: 2003-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 427-443
• Serial:
  • Safety Science
  • Volume: 41
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0925-7535
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09257535

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Automobile drivers; Cognition; Personality; Recently qualified drivers; Risk taking; Self describing data; Teenage drivers; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety; Young adults
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00943659
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 4 2003 12:00AM