Driver personality characteristics related to self-reported accident involvement and mobile phone use while driving

Safety Science

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 823-831

  Chen, Yi Lang ^a  

^a MING CHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Accident proneness; Driving aggressiveness; Mobile phone; Perceived risk

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT INVOLVEMENT; ACCIDENT PRONENESS; DRIVER PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS; DRIVING AGGRESSIVENESS; DRIVING SAFETY; INTERVIEW;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE PHONES; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

ACCIDENT PRONENESS; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; DRIVING ABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

EID: 34447629312     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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