Alcohol, personality traits, and high risk driving: A comparison of young, drinking driver groups

Social and Behavioral Characteristics of Young Adult Drink/Drivers Adjusted for Level of Alcohol Use

“…Consistent evidence indicates that the level of alcohol consumption is associated with drink/driving and with the severity of drink/driving outcomes (Escobedo et al, 1995;Grasmick et al, 1993;Grube and Voas, 1996;Howland and Hingson, 1987;Lee et al, 1997;McMillen et al, 1992;Padilla and Morrisey, 1993;Sabel et al, 2004;Treno et al, 1996). Drink/drivers who are injured in a crash are more likely than injured nondrink/drivers to perceive that they have a drinking problem, to have a higher frequency of intoxication in the month before the crash, and to report a greater frequency of drink/driving (Vingilis et al, 1994).…”

“…Personality traits and related factors are associated with risky driving behaviors (Burns and Wilde, 1995;Iversen and Rundmo, 2002;Jonah, 1997;Patil et al, 2006;Ulleberg, 2001), including drink/driving (McMillen et al, 1991(McMillen et al, , 1992. Drink/drivers have been found to possess greater hostility and psychopathic deviance (McMillen et al, 1991), sensation seeking (Donovan et al, 1985), and risk taking (McMillen et al, 1992;Patil et al, 2006) than nondrink/drivers.…”

Differentiating between sensation seeking and impulsivity through their mediated relations with alcohol use and problems

“…A variety of traits related to disinhibited personality have been shown to be associated with alcohol use and problems among college students (e.g., Andrew & Cronin, 1997;Camatta & Nagoshi, 1995;Galen, 1997;Sher, Bartholow, & Wood, 2000;Zuckerman, 1994). Sensation seeking and impulsivity are among the most stable and strong personality correlates of alcohol involvement in this population (e.g., Camatta & Nagoshi, 1995;Earleywine & Finn, 1991;Hutchinson, Patock-Peckham, Cheong, & Nagoshi, 1998;La-Grange, Jones, Erb, & Reyes, 1995;McMillen, Pang, Wells, & Anderson, 1992;Nagoshi, 1999). As discussed below, there are important measurement issues with respect to the assessment of sensation seeking and impulsivity that have largely been ignored in studies of alcohol use.…”

Prevalence and correlates of lifetime smokeless tobacco use in female military recruits

“…In the present study, lifetime ST users were more likely to describe themselves as liking to take health risks and more likely to believe that taking both legal and illegal risks would be fun. Several of the other risk factors associated with lifetime ST use in this sample (e.g., heavy drinking, drinking and driving, reckless driving) can be viewed as examples of sensation-seeking behavior and have been found to be more common among those scoring high on measures of this construct (McMillen, Pang, Wells-Parker, & Anderson, 1992;Stacy, Newcomb, & Bentler, 1991;Wagner, 2001;Zuckerman, 1994).…”