Holland's theory of personality and occupation in a road safety context.

This report details a study which aimed to confirm and extend earlier work conducted by the second author using a larger, more representative sample. A sample of 3699 drivers conducted in a telephone survey provided information about their occupations and driving record. The occupational information was used to generate personality orientation information which was then analysed in terms of its association with self-reported driving data. It was concluded that it is possible to use personality information derived this way to identify subgroups of offending drivers, and discriminant models predicting both self-reported speeding and drink-driving included personality information derived from occupations. (A)