The Vienna risk-taking test - traffic: A new measure of road traffic risk-taking

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 198-204

  Hergovich, Andreas ^a   Arendasy, Martin E ^a   Sommer, Markus ^b   Bognar, Bettina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SCHUHFRIED GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Construct validity; Dimensionality; Personality test; Risk taking; Traffic

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950224920     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001.28.4.198     Document Type: Article

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