Personality as a Predictor of Risky Driving Behaviour

By : Indrajeet J. Bhosale, Jayasankara Reddy

Page No: 41-51

Abstract
Driving in India has become a skilful activity in which one can’t neither correlate nor predict the other driver’s significance. The purpose of this study was to identify whether personality played a role in predicting a person’s aggressive thoughts while driving which may result in risky driving behaviour. The short version of NEO Inventory-3 was used to assess the personality traits (McCrae, Costa, Jr, & Martin, 2005) and Deffenbacher Driver’s Angry thoughts questionnaire to measure risky driving behaviour. A total of 120 samples were collected from Pune and Bangalore. The results showed that Extraversion was an important predictor of risky driving behaviour (? = -.238) and also a good predictor for Pejorative labelling and Verbal Aggressive Thinking (? = -.252). Also males were found to have more aggressive thoughts, and thus engaged more in risky driving behaviour than females. Implications of the results and directions for future research are discussed.

Authors :
Indrajeet J. Bhosale : Student Researcher, M.Sc.(II) Clinical Psychology – Christ (Deemed to be University) Karnataka
Jayasankara Reddy : Associate Professor, & M.Phil/ Ph.D. Coordinator, Department of Psychology, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Hosur Road, Bangalore - 560 032, Karnataka, India.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2019.14.01.5