The mediation effect of mentalization in the relationship between attachment and aggression on the road |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Universidad Europea del Atlántico, Santander, Spain;2. Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain;1. School of Business, Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, China;2. Institute of Intelligent Decision-Making, Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, China;3. Manufacturing Industry Development Research Centre on Wuhan City Circle, Wuhan 430056, China;4. School of Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia;1. Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, ISM, Marseille, France;2. Univ Gustave Eiffel, TS2-LMA, F-13300 Salon de Provence, France;1. School of Communication and Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, USA;2. Institute for Health and Behavior, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg;3. Driving Simulation Laboratory, The Ohio State University, USA;4. Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, USA;5. Department of Speech and Hearing Science, The Ohio State University, USA;1. Department of Psychology, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia;2. Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway;1. Department of Civil Engineering, Lebanese American University, P.O. Box 36, Byblos, Lebanon;2. Department of IT and Operations Management, Lebanese American University, P.O. Box 13-5053, Beirut, Lebanon;3. Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychobiology and Methodology, Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain;4. Department of Social Sciences (Psychology), Lebanese American University, P.O. Box 36, Byblos, Lebanon;1. Rivierduinen Institute for Mental Health Care, Sandifortdreef 19, 2333 ZZ Leiden, The Netherlands;2. Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Universiteitssingel 50, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands;3. Research Department of Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom;4. Department of Clinical Psychology, Health, and Neuropsychology, Leiden University, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Studies regarding aggression on the road are getting more frequent, due to the close relationship of these variables with risky behaviour and crash-related events. Whereas most of research has focused on both contextual and personality (proximal) variables, the current research aimed to explore the relationship between attachment styles (distal variables) and aggressive behaviour on the road, hypothesizing the mediation effect of mentalization. Then, a sample of 469 drivers (Mage = 35.60, SDage = 12.38; 66.1% female) taken from the general Spanish population completed a set of measures about their attachment styles (secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized), mentalization (alexithymia, mindful attention, empathy, and emotion recognition), and aggressive behaviour on the road (verbal, physical, vehicle-use related, displaced, and adaptive aggression). The results showed that driving aggression variables were significantly associated with self-sufficiency attachment style, as well as with empathy, alexithymia, and mindful attention. A further SEM analysis suggested that mentalization did not mediate in the relationship between self-sufficiency and driving aggression, but significant indirect effects were obtained in the case of the association between preoccupation attachment style and each one of the ways of aggression. Clinical implications of the results are discussed, in terms of the possible effectiveness of mentalization-based therapies to reduce aggression on the road, especially those which refer to alexithymia and mindful attention. |
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| Keywords: | Attachment styles Driving aggression Mentalization Empathy, Alexithymia Mindful attention |
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