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Hurried driving: Relationship to distress tolerance, driver anger, aggressive and risky driving in college students
- Source :
- Accident Analysis & Prevention. 51:51-55
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2013.
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Abstract
- Being a hurried driver is associated with a variety of risky driving behaviors, yet the mechanisms underlying this behavior remain unknown. Distress tolerance, defined as an individual's capability to experience and endure negative emotional states, was examined as a predictor of hurried driving among 769 college students. Results indicate that after controlling for age, gender, race, ethnicity, the student's year in school, their grade point average, driving frequency, angry driving, aggressive driving as well as other forms of self-reported risky driving; hurried driving was significantly associated with lower levels of distress tolerance. Hurried drivers also reported greater levels of frustration and impatience with other drivers, suggesting that they have difficulty in withstanding or coping with negative psychological states when driving. Traditional traffic safety campaigns that emphasize enforcement may be less successful with these drivers. The need to develop campaigns that address the affective coping abilities that contribute to this behavioral pattern is discussed.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Automobile Driving
Coping (psychology)
Adolescent
media_common.quotation_subject
Emotions
Poison control
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Anger
Frustration
Suicide prevention
Young Adult
Risk-Taking
Adaptation, Psychological
Dangerous Behavior
Injury prevention
Humans
Students
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
media_common
Psychological Tests
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Human factors and ergonomics
Aggression
Aggressive driving
Distress
Linear Models
Female
Self Report
Psychology
Social psychology
Personality
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00014575
- Volume :
- 51
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Accident Analysis & Prevention
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e5a75ae8398c864a7f5f86256c0c605c