From Trait Anger to Aggressive Violations in Road Traffic
Description
The file contains the values of the measured variables. Demographic: gender, age, and education. For personality: NEO IPIP (Goldberg et al., 2006), with the Romanian adaptation of IPIP-Ro (Iliescu, Popa, & Dimache, 2016). Variables: the answer to the items, hostility (trait anger) (TA), neuroticism (N), extraversion (E), openness to experience (O), agreeability (A) and consciousness (C). Behavioral, normative and control beliefs (TPB): a questionnaire tailored to the behavioral situation investigated was built Ajzen (2006). Variables: the answer to the items, intention (Int), attitude (Att), subjective norms (SN), descriptive norms (DN), and perceptive behavior control (PBC). Behavioral outcomes: DBQ (Reason, Manstead, Stephen, Baxter, & Campbell, 1990), with the Romanian adaptation (Sârbescu, 2013). Variables: the answer to the items, aggressive violations (AV), ordinary violations (OV), the total number of violations (TNVIO) and errors (Err).
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Data was collected through several online survey campaigns made on social media networks, in Romania. The campaigns reached 47,628 people, out of which 1,127 accessed a Google form, and 224 of them, aged between 18-64 years (M = 39.18, SD = 11.15) completed all measures. The subjects were told that their participation helps researchers to better understand the predictors of road accidents and received no financial compensation for their effort. In order to be eligible to participate in the study, participants had to own a valid driving license and regularly drive a vehicle.