The relationship between socioeconomic status and driver behavior in traffic violation outbreak

In recent years, researchers have tried to introduce personality factors that could be cause or anticipant of accident. Among of this reviews, we can point human factors relation with involving in accidents and driving behavior. Besides these surveys or individually the role of demographic factors such as age, gender, education, and etc. are also investigated and having relation or not of specific groups of people with involving in accidents have been considered. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between socioeconomic status as a human factor and driver behavior in traffic violation outbreak. This study is kind of correlational study using with causal modeling methods, path analysis. The statistical society of current study consisted of all the drivers in Tehran, which have at least one year of driving. In order to study a sample of 226 drivers in Tehran were examined. For collecting information, The Driving Behavior Survey and researcher made questionnaires on socioeconomic status scale and demographic variables were used. The findings showed that between socioeconomic status of people and incidence of traffic violation are directly negatively correlated. In addition, between anxiety-based performance deficits and anxiety-based hostile/aggressive behaviors and incidence of traffic violation are directly positively correlated and between exaggerated safety/caution behavior and incidence of traffic violation are directly negatively correlated. Finally, there is a relation between socioeconomic status and incidence of traffic violation directly or indirectly through the mediatory of driving behavior. Undoubtedly, without understanding the causes and risk factors of Break the Law and traffic violation, law enforcement and security and preventing encounters and even education will not have a lasting impact and sustainability in community.