Difficulties in emotion regulation and risky driving among Lithuanian drivers

Šeibokaitė, Laura; Endriulaitienė, Auksė; Sullman, Mark J.M.; Markšaitytė, Rasa; Žardeckaitė-Matulaitienė, Kristina

doi:10.1080/15389588.2017.1315109

Cited by 34 publications

(18 citation statements)

References 37 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The interventions designed to promote traffic safety in drivers of different ages, thus, should work on including emotion regulation strategies, specifically in traffic situations. In fact, recent empirical evidences (e.g., Šeibokaitë et al, 2017) showed difficulties in emotion regulation are significantly related with driving errors, lapses, aggressive violations, and ordinary violations in drivers of different ages. In this regard, experimental studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of cognitive, relaxation, and behavioral interventions – and their combinations – in reducing driving anger and aggression in angry drivers (for a review, see Deffenbacher, 2016).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personality Traits and Attitudes Toward Traffic Safety Predict Risky Behavior Across Young, Adult, and Older Drivers

et al. 2019

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In the last few decades, several studies have investigated the role of personality traits and attitudes toward traffic safety in predicting driving behaviors in diverse types of drivers across several countries. However, to the best of our knowledge, no studies so far have investigated the possible moderating role played by age in relation to predictors of accident risk. Answering this open question would provide information about the generalizability of the model across different subpopulations and would make possible the tailoring of the interventions to specific target groups. The study involved 1,286 drivers from three different age groups (young: n = 435; adult: n = 412; old: n = 439) which completed a questionnaire measuring drivers’ personality traits (i.e., anxiety, hostility, excitement seeking, altruism, normlessness), positive attitudes toward traffic safety, risky driving behaviors (i.e., errors, lapses, and traffic violations), accident involvement and number of traffic fines issued in the last 12 months. Multi-group Variance Based Structural Equation Modeling (VB-SEM) across the three age groups showed that the hypothesized model had a good fit with the data in all the three age groups. However, some pattern of relationships between the variables varied across the three groups, for example, if considering the direct effects of personality traits on risky driving behaviors, anxiety, altruism, and normlessness predicted violations only in young and adult drivers, whereas excitement seeking was associated with lapses only in young drivers; anxiety was a positive predictor of drivers’ errors, both in adult and older drivers, whereas excitement seeking predicted errors in adult and young drivers. On the other hand, attitudes significantly and negatively predicted violations and errors in all the three age groups, whereas they significantly and negatively predicted lapses only in young and older drivers. The results of the present study provided empirical basis to develop evidence-based road safety interventions differently tailored to the specific life’s stage of the drivers.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personality Traits and Attitudes Toward Traffic Safety Predict Risky Behavior Across Young, Adult, and Older Drivers

et al. 2019

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Trógolo, Melchior, and Medrano (2014) also have found that more difficulties in different emotion regulation abilities were related to various forms of risky driving or specifically to the increase of texting-while-driving in young drivers group (Feldman, Greeson, Renna, & Robbins-Monteith, 2011). Šeibokaitė, Endriulaitienė, Sullman, Markšaitytė, and Žardeckaitė-Matulaitienė (2017) have found that difficulties with impulse control and difficulties engaging in goal-directed behaviour were related to more frequent self-reported risky driving of Lithuanian drivers. These relations between emotional regulation and behaviour outcomes of risky driving provide the reason to expect similar associations between emotional difficulties and attitudes.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Difficulties in Emotion Regulation and Attitudes towards Risky Driving in a Group of Pre-Licensed Drivers

Žardeckaitė-Matulaitienė

Endriulaitienė

Šeibokaitė

et al. 2020

Psihol. teme (Online)

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Over-representation of novice drivers in motor-vehicle crashes encourages researchers to look for all possible psychological causes which might be targeted in prevention. The present study is aimed to explore the associations between difficulties in emotional regulation and attitudes towards risk-taking while driving in a group of pre-licensed drivers. The sample involved 475 driver’s licence candidates who completed the self-reported questionnaire with the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) and the Scale of Risk-Taking Attitudes to Driving. Structural equation modelling showed that difficulties in emotion regulation were statistically significant predictors of all measured risk-taking attitudes to driving (over speeding, drunk driving, showing off driving skills, violation of traffic rules, joyriding and positive attitude towards traffic flow) for both males and females. These findings add to the gap in the literature and confirm that emotion regulation difficulties might be the important target addressed in early intervention. Increased emotional competence of pre-licensed drivers might contribute to safer driving and improved road safety.

show abstract

“…Improper driving behavior not only relates to the driver's life and safety, but also increases a lot of hidden dangers, and even endangers the society. Driver's emotion, as one of the main psychological factors, is sometimes not controlled by cognition, and may spontaneously influence driving behaviors (Strongman, 2003;Šeibokaitė et al, 2017;Maldonado et al, 2020). Emotion is a short, easily affected, and rapidly changeable state of mind (Zimasa et al, 2016), which arises when something important to us is at stake and calls forth a coordinated set of behavioral, experiential, and physiological response tendencies that together influence how we respond to perceived challenges and opportunities (Gross, 2002).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Influences of Emotion on Driving Decisions at Different Risk Levels: An Eye Movement Study

et al. 2022

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

To explore the influences of traffic-related negative emotions on driving decisions, we induced drivers’ three emotions (neutral emotion, traffic-related negative emotion, and traffic-unrelated negative emotion) by videos, then the drivers were shown traffic pictures at different risk levels and made decisions about whether to slow down, while their eye movements were recorded. We found that traffic-related negative emotion influenced driving decisions. Compared with neutral emotion, traffic-related negative emotion led to an increase in the number of decelerations, and the higher the risk, the more the number of decelerations. The visual processing time of the risk area was shorter in the traffic-related negative emotional state than that in the neutral emotional state. The less time drivers spend looking at the risk area, the faster they make their driving decisions. The results suggest that traffic-related negative emotions lead drivers to make more conservative decisions. This study supports the rationality of using traffic accident materials to conduct safety education for drivers. This article also discussed the significance of traffic-related negative emotions to social security.

show abstract

Difficulties in emotion regulation and risky driving among Lithuanian drivers

Abstract: Emotion regulation difficulties were associated with the self-reported risky driving behaviors of Lithuanian drivers. This provides useful hints for improving driver training programs in order to prevent traffic injuries.

Cited by 34 publications

References 37 publications

Personality Traits and Attitudes Toward Traffic Safety Predict Risky Behavior Across Young, Adult, and Older Drivers

Personality Traits and Attitudes Toward Traffic Safety Predict Risky Behavior Across Young, Adult, and Older Drivers

Difficulties in Emotion Regulation and Attitudes towards Risky Driving in a Group of Pre-Licensed Drivers

Influences of Emotion on Driving Decisions at Different Risk Levels: An Eye Movement Study

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About