THE FIVE-FACTOR MODEL AND DRIVING BEHAVIOR: PERSONALITY AND INVOLVEMENT IN VEHICULAR ACCIDENTS

This paper reports on a study examining the relationship between personality and involvement in vehicular accidents using the five-factor model. Female and male college students completed both the NEO Personality Inventory-R and measures of prior involvement in driving accidents. Results indicate that there are significant negative correlations between the factor of agreeableness and the total number of driving tickets received as well as the sum of combined at-fault accidents, not-at-fault accidents and driving tickets received by subjects.

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  Ammons Scientific

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  Missoula, MT  United States  59807
• Authors:
  • Cellar, D F
  • Nelson, Z C
  • Yorke, C M
• Publication Date: 2000-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 454-456
• Serial:
  • Psychological Reports
  • Volume: 86
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Ammons Scientific
  • ISSN: 0033-2941

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; College students; Crash causes; Driving; Personality; Psychological tests; Traffic crashes; Traffic violations
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00926482
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 2 2002 12:00AM