Study on relationships between driving behavior of private car drivers and their personality traits

doi:10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2019.01.003

Abstract

Abstract: For the sake of studying the relationships between unsafe driving behavior and personality traits of private car drivers, a model of the relationships between unsafe driving behavior and personality traits of private car drivers was built. Personality traits were measured by the big five personality theory, and unsafe driving behavior was divided into three categories (violations, lapses, cognitive errors). The data were collected by questionnaires and the model was verified by SEM. The result shows that extraversion has a positive relationship with violations (path coefficient 0.180), both agreeableness and conscientiousness have a negative relationship with violations (path coefficient -0.962 and -0.544), neuroticism has a positive relationship with lapses and cognitive errors (path coefficient 0.417 and 0.409), and openness has no significant relationship with violations.

Key words: private car driver, personality traits, big five personality, unsafe driving behavior, structural equation model (SEM)

CLC Number:

X910

LIU Lingli, TIAN Dongdong, WANG Ziyue. Study on relationships between driving behavior of private car drivers and their personality traits[J]. China Safety Science Journal, 2019, 29(1): 13-18.

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