Effect of personality traits, age and sex on aggressive driving: Psychometric adaptation of the Driver Aggression Indicators Scale in China

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 103, Issue , 2017, Pages 29-36

  Zhang, Huihui ^a,b   Qu, Weina ^a   Ge, Yan ^a   Sun, Xianghong ^a   Zhang, Kan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Age; Aggressive driving; Driver aggressive indicators scale; The big five personality

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS;

AGGRESSIVE DRIVING; AGGRESSIVE DRIVING BEHAVIORS; BIG FIVE; DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES; DRIVER AGGRESSIVE INDICATORS SCALE; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; PERSONALITY TRAITS; RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ADULT; AGE; AGGRESSION; CAR DRIVING; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGGRESSION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CHINA; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85016595943     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2017.03.016     Document Type: Article

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