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Straipsnyje analizuojami agresyvų vairavimą aiskinancių veiksnių – vairuotojų agresyvumo, pykcio ir saviveiksmingumo – ypatumai. Buvo keliami sie tyrimo uždaviniai: a) įvertinti Lietuvos vairuotojų agresyvumo, vairavimo pykcio ir saviveiksmingumo rodiklius; b) nustatyti sių rodiklių tarpusavio sąsajas bei rysius su kitais agresyvų vairavimą aiskinanciais veiksniais (lytimi, amžiumi, vairavimo ypatumais); c) nustatyti eismo įvykio tikimybe geriausiai prognozuojancius rodiklius. Naudojant Buss ir Perry agresijos klausimyną, Vairavimo pykcio skale, Adelaidės vairavimo saviveiksmingumo skale bei vairavimo ypatumus atskleidžiancius kintamuosius, buvo istirti 196 vairuotojai. Gauti rezultatai rodo, kad vairuotojų pykcio ir agresyvumo rysys yra statistiskai reiksmingai teigiamas, o vairavimo pykcio ir vairuotojų saviveiksmingumo rysys – statistiskai reiksmingai neigiamas. Nebuvo nustatyta reiksmingų rysių tarp vairuotojų agresyvumo ir jų vairavimo saviveiksmingumo. Vairuotojų agresyvumo įverciai geriausiai prognozuoja patekimą į eismo įvykius. Pagrindiniai žodžiai: agresyvus vairavimas, agresyvumas, vairavimo pyktis, vairavimo saviveiksmingumas. Aggressive Driving: the Role of Aggression, Driving Anger, and Self-efficacy Cėsnienė I., Kasinska A. Summary According to the World Health Organization (2004), road traffic accidents are one of the ten leading causes of death. Many of these fatalities involve aggressive driving. P. Ellison-Potter et al. (2001) suggest that aggressive driving is any driving behaviour that intentionally endangers others psychologically, physically, or both. Examples of aggressive driving include behaviours such as excessive speeding, tailgating, horn honking, traffic weaving, profanity, obscene gestures, headlight flashing, etc. In order to understand this phenomenon, researchers have examined aggressive driving in terms of several levels of variables such as sociocultural, situational or personal (Valleries et al., 2005). Moreover, self-assessment of driving skills is a central dimension of driving activity. The evaluation of specific skills may be conceptualized by self-efficacy. Self-efficacy refers to individuals’ belief in their ability to accomplish specific goals (Bandura, 1995). The article reports the findings concerning the relationship between aggression, anger and self-efficacy among Lithuanian drivers. The sample consisted of 196 drivers (99 males, 97 females) aged 18 to 74 years. The Buss–Perry Aggression Questionnaire (Buss and Perry, 1992), the Driving Anger Scale (Deffenbacher et al., 1994), and the Adelaide Driving Self-efficacy Scale (George et al., 2007) were used in the study. Participants were administered also a questionnaire measuring a variety of demographical characteristics and driving-related factors. The results showed that more aggressive drivers tend to express the higher levels of driving anger than do less aggressive drivers. A negative relation between driving anger and driving self-efficacy was found. Further, the driving self-efficacy was higher in males than in females. Research findings indicate that there are gender differences in aggression, i.e. male drivers are more aggressive than female drivers. There are significant age differences in driver anger. In addition, high anger and aggression were related to unsafe driving behaviours. Seat-belt wearing tends to be less frequent among male drivers than among females. Aggression was found to be a predictor of crash-related outcomes. Finally, limitations of the study are discussed. Keywords: aggressive driving, aggression, driving anger, driving self-efficacy.

Darbas skirtas Lietuvos vairuotojų agresyvumo ir saviveiksmingumo įvertinimui bei analizei. Tyrimo tikslas: išanalizuoti Lietuvos vairuotojų agresyvumo lygį ir jo sąsajas su saviveiksmingumu. Patogiosios atrankos metodu apklausta buvo 18-74 metų 196 respondentai. Psichologiniam įvetinimui naudotas A.H. Buss’o ir M. Perry „Agresijos klausimynas“, J. L. Deffenbacher’o ir bendraautorių “Vairavimo pykčio skalė”, bei S. George ir kolegų „Adelaidės vairavimo saviveiksmingumo skalė“. Rezultatai atskleidė, kad vairuotojams pasižymintiems aukštesniu agresijos lygiu būdingesnis didesnis pyktis už vairo negu mažiau agresyviems vairuotojams. Taip pat vairuotojai su žemesniu saviveiksmingumu labiau linkę pykti už vairo, negu vairuotojai su aukštesniu saviveiksmingumu. Vertinant lyties skirtumus, vyrai vairuotojai pasižymi aukštesniu agresijos lygiu negu vairuotojos moterys. Moterys vairuotojos nėra labiau linkusios pykti už vairo negu vairuotojai vyrai. Tuo tarpu, vyrų vairuotojų saviveiksmingumas yra aukštesnis negu moterų vairuotojų. Logistinė regresijos analizė nustatė, kad vairuotojų agresyvumas ir žemas saviveiksmingumas didina eismo įvykio tikimybę. The paper was designed to analize and evaluate the aggressiveness and self- efficacy of Lithuanian drivers. The aim of this study was : to evaluate the level of aggressiveness of Lithuanian drivers and to eveluate the reliationship between self- efficacy and aggressive driving. The data was collected from 196 participants ( 18-74 years old). Buss - Perry Aggression Questionnaire, Deffenbacher and his colleagues’ Driving Anger Scale (DAS) and George and his joint authors’ Adelaide Driving Self-Efficacy Scale (ADSES) were used for psychological evaluations. The results showed that more aggressive drivers tend to express the higher levels of driving anger, than less aggressive drivers. Drivers with lower self- efficacy reported more driving anger than drivers with higher self- efficacy either. The results of sex differences revealed that men are more aggressive drivers than women. Women didn’t express the higher level of driving anger compared with men. The level of driving self- efficacy was higher for men than for women. The Logistic regression found the drivers’ aggressiveness and low self- efficacy to increase the probability to crash involvement.