Effects of Personality on Risky Driving Behavior and Accident Involvement for Chinese Drivers

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 565-571

  Yang, Jiaoyan ^a,b   Du, Feng ^a   Qu, Weina ^a   Gong, Zhun ^a,b   Sun, Xianghong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

accident involvement; altruism; anger; driving behavior; normlessness; sensation seeking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; CHINA; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880925678     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2012.748903     Document Type: Article

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