Driving anger: Correlates and a test of state-trait theory

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1321-1331

  Deffenbacher, Jerry L ^a   Lynch, Rebekah S ^b   Oetting, Eugene R ^a   Yingling, David A ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Front Range Community College   (United States)

Author keywords

Automobile crashes; Driving aggression; Driving anger; Risky driving; State trait theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035647870     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00226-9     Document Type: Article

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