Trial reportPloS one2018
Effect of personality traits on driving style: Psychometric adaption of the multidimensional driving style inventory in a Chinese sample.
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- Towards Mindless Stress Regulation in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
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- Association of personality traits and traffic accident involvement: a multicenter case-control study in Iran.Journal of injury & violence research · 2025Article
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- Detecting Emotional Arousal and Aggressive Driving Using Neural Networks: A Pilot Study Involving Young Drivers in Duluth.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Gender Differences in Prefrontal Cortex Response to Negative Emotional Stimuli in Drivers.Brain sciences · 2024Article
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- Psychological predictors of risky driving: the role of age, gender, personality traits (Zuckerman's and Gray's models), and decision-making styles.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Fuzzy System to Assess Dangerous Driving: A Multidisciplinary Approach.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Born to Be a Risky Driver? The Relationship Between Cloninger's Temperament and Character Traits and Risky Driving.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- An Individual Driving Behavior Portrait Approach for Professional Driver of HDVs with Naturalistic Driving Data.Computational intelligence and neuroscience · 2022Article
- Mobile Phone Use "on the Road": A Self-Report Study on Young Drivers.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Interconnection Between Driving Style, Traffic Locus of Control, and Impulsivity in Bulgarian Drivers.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Evaluating the sustainable traffic flow operational features of an exclusive spur dike U-turn lane design.PloS one · 2019Article
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Abstract
Driving style is an important factor in driving psychology, which is useful for effectively evaluating driving behaviors. Exploring driving style in a Chinese sample could help understand the overall situation of Chinese drivers. This study aims to develop a measurement of driving style fit for the Chinese situation and to validate the validity and reliability of this scale. In this study, 296 drivers from China completed the Chinese version of the multidimensional driving style inventory (MDSI), the Big Five Inventory (BFI), and the Driver Behavior Questionnaire (DBQ) as well as several questions about socio-demographic information. After testing the assumed structure by a confirmatory factor analysis, and adjusting the structure, a brief version of Chinese version of MDSI with twelve items categorized into four driving styles, namely, risky style, angry- high-velocity style, careful style and anxious style was revised. The validity and reliability of the scales were acceptable. The results showed that driving styles were closely correlated with self-reported driving behaviors. Specifically, risky style, angry- high-velocity style, and anxious style are all positively associated with dangerous driving behaviors. Meanwhile, careful style was positively associated with positive driving behaviors and negatively correlated with dangerous driving behaviors. Anxious was also found to be negatively associated with fines. For personality, we found a positive relationship between risky, angry- high-velocity, careful and anxious styles and the personality traits that often have negative effects on driving, such as extraversion and neuroticism. Meanwhile, these three styles were negatively correlated with conscientiousness and agreeableness in general. In addition, careful style was positively correlated with conscientiousness and agreeableness. The current study shows convincing evidence for the validity and reliability of the brief MDSI-C and develops a useful tool for identify the driving style of Chinese drivers for future research and relevant departments of road safety.
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