Beyond "accident-proneness": Using Five-Factor Model prototypes to predict driving behavior

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1096-1100

  Herzberg, Philipp Yorck ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differential accident involvement; Five Factor Model; Person centered or typological approach; Personality; Traffic behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350129691     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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