Victims of Road Rage: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Motorists and Vulnerable Road Users
Autor: | Reginald G. Smart, Kari Ala-leppilampi, Christopher Cavacuiti, Gina Stoduto, Richard Govoni, Robert E. Mann, Jennifer A. Locke |
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Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Automobile Driving Engineering Health (social science) Applied psychology Vulnerability Poison control Risk Assessment Rage (emotion) Suicide prevention Rage Occupational safety and health Traffic psychology Pathology and Forensic Medicine Risk Factors Surveys and Questionnaires Injury prevention medicine Humans Crime Victims business.industry Accidents Traffic Human factors and ergonomics General Medicine medicine.disease Aggression Motor Vehicles Female Medical emergency business Law |
Zdroj: | Violence and Victims. 28:1068-1084 |
ISSN: | 1945-7073 0886-6708 |
Popis: | Objective: To gain an in-depth understanding of road rage incidents from the victims’ perspectives. Methods: The data consisted of 30- to 60-min in-depth semistructured phone interviews with 29 self-identified victims of road rage. Twenty of the participants were in a motor vehicle, whereas 9 were pedestrians/cyclists. A qualitative Grounded Theory approach was used to inductively code and analyze the transcripts. Results: Victims reported a correlation between their vulnerability and the perceived intensity/severity of the road rage incidents. The most vulnerable victims (pedestrians and cyclists) were the least likely to view road rage incidents as a random event and the most likely to feel that they were specifically targeted. Road rage incidents tended to evolve more rapidly when there was a greater real or perceived power imbalance between the victims and perpetrators. The most vulnerable victims were the most likely to have long-term physical and mental health consequences from the incident, and to significantly modify their behavior after the incident. Conclusions: Our analysis suggests that issues of victim vulnerability play a major role in determining the intensity, severity, and psychological consequences of road rage incidents. This seems particularly true for the most vulnerable of road users, such as pedestrians and cyclists. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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