Aggressive driving in Romania: Psychometric properties of the Driving Anger Expression Inventory

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 556-564

  Sârbescu, Paul ^a,b  

^a WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Aggressive driving; DAX; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

AGE DIFFERENCES; AGGRESSIVE DRIVING; CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; FACTOR STRUCTURE; PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES; VALIDITY;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862981747     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2012.05.009     Document Type: Article

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