title: Dimensions of driving anger and their relationships with aberrant driving.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between driving anger and aberrant driving behaviours. An internet-based questionnaire survey was administered to a sample of Chinese drivers, with driving anger measured by a 14-item short Driving Anger Scale (DAS) and the aberrant driving behaviours measured by a 23-item Driver Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ). The results of Confirmatory Factor Analysis demonstrated that the three-factor model (hostile gesture, arrival-blocking and safety-blocking) of the DAS fitted the driving anger data well. The Exploratory Factor Analysis on DBQ data differentiated four types of aberrant driving, viz. emotional violation, error, deliberate violation and maintaining progress violation. For the anger-aberration relation, it was found that only "arrival-blocking" anger was a significant positive predictor for all four types of aberrant driving behaviours. The "safety-blocking" anger revealed a negative impact on deliberate violations, a finding different from previously established positive anger-aberration relation. These results suggest that drivers with different patterns of driving anger would show different behavioural tendencies and as a result intervention strategies may be differentially effective for drivers of different profiles.
authors.affiliation: Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Electronic address: trzhang3-c@my.cityu.edu.hk.
authors.forename: Tingru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Electronic address: alan.chan@cityu.edu.hk.
authors.forename: Alan H S
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.affiliation: Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, China. Electronic address: zhangwei1968@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D000786:Anger; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000523:psychology*; D002681:China; D003617:Dangerous Behavior; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D012449:Safety; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Aberrant driving behaviours; Chinese drivers; DAS; DBQ; Driving anger