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

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  • Biying Shen
  • Weina Qu
  • Yan Ge
  • Xianghong Sun
  • Kan Zhang

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

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  • Biying Shen & Weina Qu & Yan Ge & Xianghong Sun & Kan Zhang, 2018. "The relationship between personalities and self-report positive driving behavior in a Chinese sample," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(1), pages 1-16, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0190746
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190746
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