Director: Eric R. Dahlen, Ph.D.
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Michael Moore Defends Dissertation on the Driver Stress Profile
10/18/10 Traffic Psychology
Michael Moore, a doctoral student from the Anger and Traffic Psychology Lab who is now completing his predoctoral internship at the Memphis VA Medical Center, successfully defended his dissertation last week, "Further Validation of the Larson Driver Stress Profile." Congratulations soon-to-be-Dr. Moore!
The Driver Stress Profile (DSP; Larson, 1996) is a 40-item self-report measure of four constructs thought to be relevant to aggressive driving: competitiveness, anger, impatience, and punishing other drivers. Michael's dissertation provided initial evidence of the construct validity of a version of this measure after refining it through exploratory factor analysis. Although additional work is needed before this modified version of the DSP can be considered complete, initial results are promising. The revised DSP was found to predict motor vehicle accidents, aggressive driving, risky driving, and driving anger expression. In fact, the DSP was able to explain an additional 20% of the variance in aggressive driving even after accounting for gender, miles driven/week, driving anger, and sensation seeking.
The Driver Stress Profile (DSP; Larson, 1996) is a 40-item self-report measure of four constructs thought to be relevant to aggressive driving: competitiveness, anger, impatience, and punishing other drivers. Michael's dissertation provided initial evidence of the construct validity of a version of this measure after refining it through exploratory factor analysis. Although additional work is needed before this modified version of the DSP can be considered complete, initial results are promising. The revised DSP was found to predict motor vehicle accidents, aggressive driving, risky driving, and driving anger expression. In fact, the DSP was able to explain an additional 20% of the variance in aggressive driving even after accounting for gender, miles driven/week, driving anger, and sensation seeking.
Article on Driving Anger and Boredom Proneness Makes AAP's Top 20 Most Cited List
09/20/10 Traffic Psychology
I was just informed by Elsevier that a 2005 article we published in Accident Analysis and Prevention was one of the top 20 most cited articles from this journal published between 2005 and 2010. The citation of the article is:
Dahlen, E. R., Martin, R. C., Ragan, K., & Kuhlman, M. M. (2005). Driving anger, sensation seeking, impulsiveness, and boredom proneness in the prediction of unsafe driving. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 37(2), 341-348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2004.10.006
The study examined the role of impulsivity, sensation seeking, boredom proneness, and driving anger as predictors of aggressive and risky driving in a college student sample. In addition to providing further support for the utility of the Driving Anger Scale (DAS; Deffenbacher et al., 1994) in the assessment of unsafe driving behavior, we found that sensation seeking, boredom proneness, and impulsivity resulted in incremental improvements to the predictive model over and above driving anger. Overall, this helps to strengthen the case for using multiple predictors to understand risky and aggressive driving.
It is great to know that others have found this paper useful in their research.
Dahlen, E. R., Martin, R. C., Ragan, K., & Kuhlman, M. M. (2005). Driving anger, sensation seeking, impulsiveness, and boredom proneness in the prediction of unsafe driving. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 37(2), 341-348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2004.10.006
The study examined the role of impulsivity, sensation seeking, boredom proneness, and driving anger as predictors of aggressive and risky driving in a college student sample. In addition to providing further support for the utility of the Driving Anger Scale (DAS; Deffenbacher et al., 1994) in the assessment of unsafe driving behavior, we found that sensation seeking, boredom proneness, and impulsivity resulted in incremental improvements to the predictive model over and above driving anger. Overall, this helps to strengthen the case for using multiple predictors to understand risky and aggressive driving.
It is great to know that others have found this paper useful in their research.