title: Hurried driver dispositions: their relationship to risky traffic behaviors.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the relationship of driver dispositions with traffic safety behaviors and beliefs.
  
  
  METHODS
  A random digit-dial telephone survey was conducted of 796 licensed drivers.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Binary and multivariate logistic regression analyses compared hurried  and nonhurried drivers and found that hurried drivers were more likely to admit to a variety of risky behaviors. They were also less likely to believe they would be ticketed for speeding and to report wearing their seat belt than were nonhurried drivers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  More research is  needed into identifying the underlying motivational factors of hurried drivers and what countermeasures will be most effective for them.
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral and Community Health, College Park, MD, USA. kbeck1@umd.edu
authors.forename: Kenneth H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.forename: Min Qi
authors.initials: MQ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Alice F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Yan
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001290:Attitude; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000523:psychology*; D003625:Data Collection / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008396:Maryland; D008875:Middle Aged; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012622:Seat Belts / Q000706:statistics & numerical data