Aggressive driving among British, Dutch, Finnish and Turkish drivers

International Journal of Crashworthiness

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 233-238

  Özkan, Türker ^a   Lajunen, Timo ^a   Parker, Dianne ^b   Sumer, Nebi ^a   Summala, Heikki ^c  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

aggressive driving; anger; cross cultural differences; other drivers

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSIVE DRIVING; ANGER; CROSS-CULTURAL DIFFERENCES; FINLAND; FINNISH; GREAT BRITAIN; NETHERLANDS; OTHER DRIVERS; TURKISHS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 79961182032     PISSN: 13588265     EISSN: 17542111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13588265.2010.536687     Document Type: Article

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