Anger, aggression, risky behavior, and crash-related outcomes in three groups of drivers

Deffenbacher, Jerry L.; Lynch, Rebekah S.; Filetti, Linda B.; Dahlen, Eric R.; Oetting, E. R.

doi:10.1016/s0005-7967(02)00014-1

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“…In general, the role of negative emotion on risk behavior is not well understood, though many previous studies indicate an effect of negative mood such as depression and anger on risk behavior such as binge eating, substance use, and drunk-driving (e.g., Smith, 1992;Stice, Presnell, & Spangler, 2002) as well as health outcomes (e.g., Deffenbacher, Lynch, Filetti, Dahlen, & Oetting, 2003;Smith, 1992). The extant literature on the link between anger and sexual risk behavior is both inconclusive (Crepaz & Marks, 2001) and insufficient regarding more subtle, population-limited, and moderating effects of anger on safer sex behavior (Kalichman & Weinhardt, 2001).…”

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Anger as a Moderator of Safer Sex Motivation Among Low-Income Urban Women

Schröder

Carey

2005

J Behav Med

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Theoretical models suggest that both HIV knowledge and HIV risk perception inform rational decision-making and, thus, predict safer sex motivation and behavior. However, the amount of variance explained by knowledge and risk perception is typically small. In this cross-sectional study, we investigated whether the predictive power of HIV knowledge and HIV risk perception on safer sex motivation is affected by trait anger. We hypothesized that anger may disrupt rational-decision making, distorting the effects of both HIV knowledge and risk perception on safer sex intentions. Data from 232 low-income, urban women at risk for HIV infection were used to test a path model with past sexual risk behavior, HIV knowledge, and HIV risk perception as predictors of safer sex intentions. Moderator effects of anger on safer sex intentions were tested by simultaneous group comparisons between high-anger and low-anger women (median-split). The theoretically expected "rational pattern" was found among low-anger women only, including (a) a positive effect of knowledge on safer sex intentions, and (b) buffer (inhibitor) effects of HIV knowledge and HIV risk perception on the negative path leading from past risk behavior to safer sex intentions. Among highanger women, an "irrational pattern" emerged, with no effects of HIV knowledge and negative effects of both past risk behavior and HIV risk perception on safer sex intentions. In sum, the results suggest that rational knowledge and risk-based decisions regarding safer sex may be limited to low-anger women.

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Anger as a Moderator of Safer Sex Motivation Among Low-Income Urban Women

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Carey

2005

J Behav Med

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“…Furthermore, research found that those individuals who reported high levels of anger are more likely to be outwardly aggressive [3]. Therefore driver anger also leads to aggressive driving behaviours [4]. Angry drivers, however, can become aggressive and tend to incorporate a higher level of risk-taking into their driving style [5].…”

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“…Angry drivers, however, can become aggressive and tend to incorporate a higher level of risk-taking into their driving style [5]. Studies have shown that significant relationship exist between driving anger and crash related conditions such as losing control of their vehicle, losing concentration, speeding, tailgating, near misses and moving violations (tickets) [4,6]. While driving, high anger drivers experience more anger triggers, frequent and intense anger, hostile thinking, aggression, risky behavior, and some crash related conditions than low anger drivers [7].…”

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Driver Anger Scale (DAS) Among Car Drivers: How Serious Are They?

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Abstract. Nowadays, anger while driving on the road is a crucial issue in Malaysia. The anger of driver may lead to traffic crashes. Road accident issue is an important agenda in every country. Driver behaviour and attitude such as impatience, hasty and hot-tempered on the road has become one of the causes in road accidents. Uncontrolled anger will affect the behavior of oneself during driving and could cause an individual to display aggressive attitude. Therefore, this study is aimed to identify contributing factor in anger of drivers and evaluate the Driver Anger Scale (DAS) in Batu Pahat, Johor. In addition, this study also analyzes the relationship between driver anger and the factor of DAS. Cross sectional study method was conducted in this study by distributing 250 questionnaires to car drivers. The data collectied was analyzed by descriptive, chi-square test, correlation and regression analysis using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0. The findings show that the discourtesy was reported as the most dominant factor contributing to driver anger. As a recommendation, to overcome driver anger issue, the authorities should prepare an action plan, promote and nurture public to practice good driving behaviour. Moreover, curriculum and driver training lesson should be improved to create better attitude among drivers. Drivers also should change their driving attitude by becoming safe drivers and exhibiting defensive driving skills on the road.

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“…One of the variables of the human factor -and more concretely of the emotions-that more relevance seems to have is anger (Dahlen & Ragan, 2004;Deffenbacher, Filetti, Richards, Lynch, & Oetting, 2003;Deffenbacher, Lynch, Filetti, Dahlen, & Oetting, 2003). This is because the experience of this emotion has a negative influence in some cognitive variables, like attention, perception and information processing, which are essential to the exercise of driving (Bone & Mowen, 2006;Pinto, 2001), evidencing their implication in road accidents.…”

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Comparison of Drivers’ Aggression Frequency on and off the Road According to the Propensity to Experience Anger behind the Wheel

Herrero-Fernández

2015

Accion psicol.

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An important question in the study of driving anger is whether drivers express anger the same way on and off the road. With the aim of analyzing the between-group and within-group differences in a heterogeneous sample of 157 drivers divided in high, moderate and low-driving anger, four ways of expressing anger were assessed (verbally, physically, displacedly and adaptatively), both in general and behind the wheel. The between-group results showed that high anger drivers scored higher than low angered in all types of desadaptative expression on the road (η2 = .08 -.16) as well as in the physical (η2 = .06) and displaced (η2 = .10) ways off the road. The within-group comparisons evidenced high equivalence in each of the three groups about the preference of anger expressions on and off the road, concluding the apparent equivalence of the behavior in all the contexts. Clinical and road safety implications are discussed. ACCIÓN PSICOLÓGICA, junio 2015, vol. 12, n. o 2, 113-120. ISSN: 1578 114 Keywords ResumenUna cuestión importante en el estudio de la ira en la conducción es si los conductores expresan la ira de la misma manera dentro y fuera del vehículo. Con el objetivo de analizar las diferencias tanto intergrupales como intragrupales en una muestra heterogénea de 157 conductores divididos en alta, moderada y escasamente propensos a experimentar ira al volante, cuatro formas homólogas de expresar la ira tanto en general como en la conducción fueron valoradas (verbalmente, físicamente, desplazadamente y adaptativamente). Los resultados de los contrastes intergrupales mostraron que los conductores altamente propensos a experimentar ira puntuaron más alto que los escasamente propensos a esta emoción en todas las maneras de expresión agresiva al volante (η2 = .08 -.16), así como en las formas física (η2 = .06) y desplazada (η2 = .10) fuera del vehículo. Las comparaciones intragrupo evidenciaron una alta equivalencia en cada uno de los tres grupos acerca de la frecuencia de expresión de la ira dentro y fuera del vehículo de cada una de las cuatro maneras valoradas, concluyéndose la aparente equivalencia de comportamiento en todos los contextos. Se discuten las implicaciones clínicas y para la Seguridad Vial.Palabras clave: Ira en la Conducción; Expresión de la Ira en la Conducción; Expresión Genérica de la Ira; Seguridad Vial; Psicología del Tráfico.

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Anger, aggression, risky behavior, and crash-related outcomes in three groups of drivers

Cited by 203 publications

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Anger as a Moderator of Safer Sex Motivation Among Low-Income Urban Women

Anger as a Moderator of Safer Sex Motivation Among Low-Income Urban Women

Driver Anger Scale (DAS) Among Car Drivers: How Serious Are They?

Comparison of Drivers’ Aggression Frequency on and off the Road According to the Propensity to Experience Anger behind the Wheel

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