Modeling Personality Traits, Anger Emotion and Aggressive Driving Behaviors

The present study examined the mediationg role of driving anger on the relationship between personality traits and aggressive driving behaviors among drivers. In this correlational study, 400 drivirs responded to the Five Factor Inventory (FFI, John & Srivastava, 1999), the Driving Anger Scale (DAS; Deffenbacher, Oetting, & Lynch, 1994) and the Driving Anger Expression Inventory (DAEI; Deffenbacher, Lynch, Oetting & Swaim, 2002). Results showed that there is a positive significant correlation between neurotism with anger emotion and non-adaptive expression of driving anger and there is negative significant correlation between neurotism with adaptive expression of anger driving. Results also indicated that there is a negative significant correlation between extraversion, conscensciesness, agreeableness and openness to expriences with anger emotion and non-adaptive expression of driving anger and positive significant correlation with adaptive expression of driving anger. Results showed that the partially mediated model of driving anger on the relationship between personality traits and anger expression had acceptable fit to data. In sum, these finding show that the part of available variance in aggressive driving behaviors in the context of prediction by personality traits, accounted for driving anger emotion.