The relationship between personalities and self-report positive driving behavior in a Chinese sample

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190746
• Publication Date: 2018-01-11T14:36:02Z
• Authors: Biying Shen; Weina Qu; Yan Ge; Xianghong Sun; Kan Zhang
• Keywords: Conscientiousness; Openness to experience; Agreeableness

Driving behaviors play an important role in accident involvement. Concretely speaking, aberrant driving would cause more accidents, and oppositely positive promote to build safety traffic environment. The main goals of this study were explore the behavior its relationship with personality a Chinese sample. A total 421 licensed drivers (286 male 135 female) from Beijing, China completed Positive Driver Behavior Scale (PDBS), Questionnaire (DBQ), Dula Dangerous Index (DDDI) Big Five Inventory (BFI) on voluntary anonymous basis. results showed that version PDBS has both reliability validity was significantly correlated BFI. Specifically, negatively neuroticism (r = -0.38) positively extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness openness experience (the correlation coefficient ranged 0.36 0.55). In contrast previous research, age our sample, which may have resulted less or lack available cognitive resources.