The relationship between personality traits and high-risk drivingbehaviors and attitude to observance of traffic rules in intra-citydrivers

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