Personality and demographic differences in the perceived risks of potentially timid driving behaviours |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Monash University Accident Research Centre, 21 Alliance Way, Clayton Campus, Victoria 3800, Australia;2. School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne 3004, Victoria, Australia;1. School of Marxism, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, Liaoning, PR China;2. School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, Liaoning, PR China;1. Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety – Queensland (CARRS-Q), 130 Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Queensland 4059, Australia;2. Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads, Australia;1. School of Social Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, EH14 4AS UK;2. School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University, EH14 4AS UK;1. Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Psychology, Sivas, Turkey;2. Ege University, Institute on Drug Abuse, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science, Department of Addiction Toxicology, Izmir, Turkey;1. Monash University Accident Research Centre, Clayton, Victoria, Australia;2. Interdisciplinary Pain Palliative and Support Care Service, Integrative Medicine (UIC22), Nantes University Hospital Center, Therapeutic Laboratory (EA 3826), France;3. University of Toulouse, CLLE, UMR-CNRS 5263, Toulouse, France;4. TS2-LESCOT, University of Gustave Eiffel, IFSTTAR, University of Lyon, F-69675 Lyon, France;1. CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China;2. Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China |
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| Abstract: | Timid driving behaviours can be described as overly cautious and hesitant driving behaviours. Little research has examined behaviours that potentially resemble timid driving and how these behaviours are perceived by other drivers. This is despite the potential for these behaviours to be perceived in a way that leads to angry and aggressive retaliatory behaviours in some drivers (e.g., in anger-prone drivers). We conducted an online survey examining the perceived road safety risks of several behaviours that could potentially result from timid driving and their relationships with driver personality (trait anxiety, trait driving anger), behaviour (anxious driving, angry driving), and demographic (age, gender, annual mileage) background. Drivers (N = 439, Mage = 49.41 ± 5.59 years, aged 18–89) perceived excessively cautious and unpredictable braking behaviours as posing moderate levels of risk. Multiple linear regression analyses also indicated higher perceived risks of slow and excessively cautious behaviours in older, male, and anger prone drivers. No meaningful associations were found between driver characteristics and the risks of unpredictable braking behaviours. These results suggest that safety campaigns to reduce aggressive behaviour may benefit from targeting the perceptions of other drivers’ behaviours. |
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| Keywords: | Timid driving Road safety Driver anger Aggressive driving |
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