The Bulgarian Version of the Multidimensional Driving Style Inventory: Psychometric Properties

Totkova, Zornitsa; Racheva, Rositsa

doi:10.3390/bs9120145

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“…The Bulgarian version of the Multidimensional driving style inventory was used to assess the driving styles [49]. The MDSI-BG consists of 57 items measuring eight driving styles: Risky, Irrational, Anxious, High velocity, Dissociative, Patient and careful, Angry, and Distress reduction driving styles.…”

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Interconnection between Driving Style, Traffic Locus of Control, and Impulsivity in Bulgarian Drivers

Totkova

2020

Behavioral Sciences

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The need for research in the field of transport psychology in Bulgaria has become more tangible in recent years, due to both the increased public intolerance to aggressive driving and the very high number of injuries and fatalities in road accidents in the country. The main objective of this study is to investigate the interconnection between Driving style, Traffic locus of control, and the Impulsivity in Bulgarian drivers. A research is conducted in order to examine the relations between the constructs in Bulgarian sample (n = 456, male = 204; female = 252; average age = 37). The results show that there are significant correlations between impulsivity and all driving styles. Positive correlations were found with the maladaptive driving styles, while the adaptive driving style was negatively associated with impulsivity. Correlations between the traffic locus of control and the driving styles were also found. These results provide a very good opportunity for further research in this area as well as for the development of prevention and training programs in the field of road safety.

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Interconnection between Driving Style, Traffic Locus of Control, and Impulsivity in Bulgarian Drivers

Totkova

2020

Behavioral Sciences

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“…In 2019, similar studies were conducted by Bulgarian researchers Z. Totkova and R. Racheva, who modernized the method and presented their version of factor analyses of the multidimensional driving style inventory (MDSI-BG) in [77].…”

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Theory and Practice of Quantitative Assessment of System Harmonicity: Case of Road Safety in Russia before and during the COVID-19 Epidemic

2021

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People have had an interest in harmony issues for thousands of years; however, there is still no elaborated system of views on these questions. Ancient Greeks understood harmony as an agreement of opposites. A surge of interest in the study of the harmonic aspects of being occurred in the twentieth century due to the development of systems science, particularly regarding synergetic system effects. At the same time, there are still relatively few applications of synergetics because of the absence of an accurate methodology for the identification of system harmonicity. The aim of this research is to develop the methodology for the quantitative assessment of system harmonicity by considering a practical example: the quantitative assessment of the harmonicity of the road safety provision system (RSS) and its dynamics during the last 15 years (2006–2020). In addition, the impact of the COVID restrictions on population mobility in Russia in 2020, on the change in the harmonicity of the road safety provision system, is considered. During the research it was established that the quality factor g of the Russian road safety provision system changed from g2006 = 1.9565 to g2020 = 2.4646, which promoted the decline of the relative entropy of the Russian road safety provision system from Hn RSS2006 = 0.8623 to Hn RSS2020 = 0.7553. The deep reason for that change was the modification of relation between “weights” or the significance of the contribution of different elements of the cause-and-effect chain in the formation of the factual level of the road accident rate in Russia in the last 15 years. The main conclusion of this research is that the harmonicity of the Russian road safety provision system, assessed by the normalized functional general utility GUn, has been increased, and it has already exceeded the level of harmonious reference systems GUn = 0.618. In fact, the normalized functional general utility GUn of the Russian road safety provision system increased from GUnRSS2006 = 0.615 to GUnRSS2020 = 0.652 (by 6.0%), from 2006 to 2020. Simultaneously, the share of the normalized used resource Xn declined, allowing a conclusion to be drawn about a significant improvement in the balance “efficiency-quality” of the Russian road safety provision system. The COVID lockdown played a positive role in this process. Harmonicity of the Russian road safety provision system, assessed by the normalized general utility GUnRSS, increased by 0.46% from 2019 to 2020.

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The Multidimensional Driving Style Inventory

Ben‐Ari

2021

International Encyclopedia of Transportation

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The Bulgarian Version of the Multidimensional Driving Style Inventory: Psychometric Properties

Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

Interconnection between Driving Style, Traffic Locus of Control, and Impulsivity in Bulgarian Drivers

Interconnection between Driving Style, Traffic Locus of Control, and Impulsivity in Bulgarian Drivers

Theory and Practice of Quantitative Assessment of System Harmonicity: Case of Road Safety in Russia before and during the COVID-19 Epidemic

The Multidimensional Driving Style Inventory

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