Personality, attitudes and risk perception as predictors of risky driving behaviour among young drivers

Relationships between young drivers’ personality characteristics, risk perceptions, and driving behaviour

“…Previous research has also indicated that personality variables are direct contributors to involvement in risky driving behaviour (Dahlen, Martin, Ragan & Kuhlman, 2005;Schwebel, Severson, Ball & Rizzo, 2006;Ulleberg & Rundmo, 2003). Significant indirect effects have also been found with personality acting as a distal influence on driving behaviour through risk perception (Rundmo & Iversen, 2004;Ulleberg & Rundmo).…”

“…The current study utilised the speeding scale used by Ulleberg and Rundmo (2003) as a measure of risky driving behaviour.…”

“…In that sense, risk perception may be a consequence, not a cause of behaviour. Ulleberg and Rundmo (2003) also questioned whether there is a causal relationship between risk perception and behaviour. Although risk perception was moderately correlated with risk behaviour while driving (r = -.22), when attitudes were controlled for, the authors found a nonsignificant association between risk perception and risky driving behaviour among a sample of young Norwegian drivers.…”

“…However, when measuring perceived risk, Rundmo and Iversen considered it was important to distinguish between cognitive-based and affective-based subjective assessments. Affective components of risk perception such as worry and concern have also been found to be a predictor of risky driving behaviour (see Rundmo & Iversen, 2004;Ulleberg & Rundmo, 2003). However, McKenna and Horswill (2006) found that worry and concern appeared to have less influence than other variables (e.g., legal constraints, mood, passengers, journey time, economics, and thrill), and accounted for only 2% of the variance in both speeding and driving violations.…”

Modeling offenses among motorcyclists involved in crashes in Spain

“…Psychological factors related to risk behavior (Chen, 2009;Lev et al, 2008;Machin and Sankey, 2008;Ulleberg and Rundmo, 2003) have not been included in this study and should be considered in future research. Another possible extension could be the application of a mediational model (Mackinnon, 2008) where motorcyclist offender is the intermediate variable between a number of explanatory variables and the criterion variables crash risk or crash severity.…”