high-risk driving behaviors

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship betweenpersonality traits and high-risk driving behaviors and attitudes towardobservance of traffic rules in intra- city drivers of Marand city. The presentstudy is practical in terms of purpose and descriptive in type of correlation interms of quantitative methods of data collection. The statistical population ofthe present study consisted of all intra-city drivers in Marand city, whose theirnumber was 700 according to the statistics announced by the Marand citytraffic center. The statistical sample of the present study was 250 intra-citydrivers in Marand city, which was obtained using Morgan table and clustersampling method. The Neo Five personality factor questionnaire has beenused to measure personality traits, the Manchester questionnaire to measurehigh-risk behaviors variable, and Zarabadi questionnaire based on the theory ofprogrammatic behavior of Fransis, Ecsel, Johnston, Walker, Grishmao, andFoy to measure attitudes toward traffic rules. The results showed that there is asignificant relationship between the personality traits of neuroticism andextraversion with all the components of high-risk driving behaviors (slippingin driving, driving errors, intentional and unintentional violations) (p˂0/05),but there is no significant relationship between openness and driving errors andintentional and unintentional violations (p˂0/05). Also, social acceptance hasno relationship with unintentional violations (p˂0/05). Among the componentsof personality traits, neuroticism is a significant relationship with beingconscientious with a mental norm of the components of attitudes toward trafficrules (p˂0/05) and extroversion is a relationship with attitudes toward trafficrules. There is no significant relationship between extraversion, openness andsocial acceptance with any of the components of attitudes toward traffic rules

Risky behaviors are potentially destructive behaviors that people do,voluntarily or unaware of the possible undesirable consequences. This conceptis influenced by many social and personality factors. This concept is itselfinfluenced by many social and personality factors and this article attempts toinvestigate the role of excitment seeking and impulsivity in high risk drivingbehaviors of intercity drivers of Tabriz-Ahar road .The research method was descriptive in type of correlation. The statisticalpopulation of the study was all drivers of Tabriz-Ahar Road with at least twoyears of driving experience in 2018. From 130 drivers, a sample of 100 peoplewas selected as available. The tool for measuring the research were GeneralHealth Questionnaire (GHQ), Zuckerman Excitement seeking Questionnaire(SSS), Barratt Impact Assessment Questionnaire, and Manchester DrivingBehavior Questionnaire. The results showed that there is a significantrelationship between emotion seeking and high risk driving behaviors andthere was also a significant relationship between impulsive components andhigh risk driving behaviors in Tabriz-Ahar road.So, we conclude that the excitement seeking and impulsivity variables are ableto predict the risky driving behaviors of the Tabriz-Ahar road. Given thataccording to the findings of the present study, excitement seeking andimpulsivity are components related to the tendency of high risk drivingbehaviors, it is suggested that informig in field of exciteme seeking,impulsivity and their effects should be considered as one of the effectivefactors in high risk driving behavior training program.