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Driver behaviours and driver skills are the two aspects of driver-related human factors leading to crashes and are affected by individual differences. Anger is a commonly experienced emotion in everyday life and in the driving context and has been positively related to aggressive behaviours, near-misses and crashes. Concerning this, the current study investigated the relationships between general and context-specific anger with driver behaviours through driver skills. Three hundred sixty-nine drivers between the ages of 18 and 58 (M = 24.53, SD = 7.65) completed a questionnaire battery consisting of the Trait Anger Scale (TAS), the Measure for Angry Drivers (MAD), the Driver Skills Inventory (DSI), the Driver Behaviours Questionnaire (DBQ), the Positive Driver Behaviour Scale (PDBS) and the Driving Anger Expression Inventory (DAX). The factor analyses for the Turkish adaptations of MAD and DAX supported the original factorial structures. For unskilled drivers, experiencing anger more due to the behaviours of others was associated with more errors. For skilled drivers, higher anger due to the behaviours of others was associated with more personal physical anger expression and positive behaviours. Similarly, for the same group of drivers, high anger due to traffic delays was associated with more errors. The findings revealed a complex relationship between context-specific anger and driver behaviours based on different levels of driver skills, contrary to non-significant relations of trait anger. Anger experienced due to context/situation-based reason was associated with more general driving style behaviours (i.e., errors and positive behaviours) through driver skills. The findings of the current study provided valuable information for a better understanding of anger-related driver behaviours as well as the development of effective intervention programs to reduce aberrant behaviours, and anger experienced and expressed while driving. |
