Personality factors in crashes, age and alcohol.

Author(s)
Schmidt, C.W. Shaffer, J.W. Zlotowitz, H.I. & Fisher, R.S.
Year
Abstract

The principal findings of this report were that the drivers in the study were significantly deviant from population norms with regard to a number of personality characteristics. The drivers, as a group, could be described as aggressive impulsive and displaying moderately anti-social characteristics. Surprisingly, these deviant psychological characteristics did not correlate with socio-demographic variables, such as age, positive B.A.C., culpability for the crash, number of vehicles involved in the crash, or death of the driver.

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Library number
B 11588 (In: B 11490 [electronic version only]) /83.2/83.4/ IRRD 247221
Source

In: Proceedings of the 20th conference of the American Association for Automotive Medicine AAAM, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1-3, 1976, p. 307-314, 7 ref

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