Personality Predictors of Driver Vengeance
The purpose of this study was to identify personality and individual difference measures related to driver vengeance, as measured by the Driver Vengeance Questionnaire (DVQ; Wiesenthal, Hennessy, & Gibson, 2000). There were 170 undergraduate students who completed paper-and-pencil
questionnaires including the DVQ and measures of narcissism, impulsivity, and trait driver stress. A hierarchical linear regression predicting DVQ score revealed that being male (β = .25), narcissism (β = .19), and trait driver stress (β = .41) were significantly associated
with vengeance. Impulsivity was significant in the third block of the regression but was not a significant predictor of vengeance in the final block. Interactions between gender and the individual difference measures were not significant. The final model accounted for 34% of the variance.
Implications of the results and directions for future research are discussed.
Keywords: DRIVER AGGRESSION; DRIVER STRESS; IMPULSIVITY; NARCISSISM; VENGEANCE
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada
Publication date: 01 February 2015
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