Personality Predictors of Driver Vengeance

Autor: David L. Wiesenthal, Christine M. Wickens, James E.W. Roseborough
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Violence and Victims. 30:148-162
ISSN: 1945-7073
0886-6708
DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.vv-d-13-00111
Popis: The purpose of this study was to identify personality and individual difference measures related to driver vengeance, as measured by the Driver Vengeance Questionnaire (DVQ; Wiesenthal, Hennessy, & Gibson, 2000). There were 170 undergraduate students who completed paper-and-pencil questionnaires including the DVQ and measures of narcissism, impulsivity, and trait driver stress. A hierarchical linear regression predicting DVQ score revealed that being male (β = .25), narcissism (β = .19), and trait driver stress (β = .41) were significantly associated with vengeance. Impulsivity was significant in the third block of the regression but was not a significant predictor of vengeance in the final block. Interactions between gender and the individual difference measures were not significant. The final model accounted for 34% of the variance. Implications of the results and directions for future research are discussed.
Databáze: OpenAIRE