Differences in Driving Anger among Professional Drivers

A Cross-Cultural Study

Dados Bibliográficos

ID15463598
AutoresMilanko Damjanović (University of Montenegro), Spasoje Mićić, Boško Matović (0000-0002-8336-8809, University of Montenegro), Dragan Jovanović (0000-0002-2716-481X, University of Novi Sad), Aleksandar Bulajić (0000-0001-6618-4314, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume19
Fascículo7
Páginas4168-4168
Data de publicação2022-03-31
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601
EditoraMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/ijerph19074168
PMID35409852
OpenAlexW4221026027
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas24

Public transport systems have a vital role in achieving sustainable mobility goals, diminishing reliance on private individual transport and improving overall public health. Despite that, transport operators are often in situations that require them to cope with complex working conditions that lead to negative emotions such as anger. The current study represents a segment of the permanent global research agenda that seeks to devise and test a psychometric scale for measuring driving anger in professional drivers. The present research is one of the first attempts to examine the factorial validity and the cross-cultural measurement equivalence of the broadly utilized Driving Anger Scale (DAS) in three culturally different countries within the Western Balkans region. The respondents (N = 1054) were taxi, bus and truck drivers between 19 and 75 years of age. The results pertaining to confirmatory factor analysis showed that there were adequate fit statistics for the specified six-dimensional measurement model of the DAS. The measurement invariance testing showed that the meaning and psychometric performance of driving anger and its facets are equivalent across countries and types of professional drivers. Furthermore, the results showed that driving anger facets had positive correlations with dysfunctional ways of expressing anger and negative correlations with the form of the prosocial anger expression. In addition, the results revealed that taxi drivers displayed considerably higher levels of anger while driving and aggressive driving than truck and bus drivers. Overall, this study replicates and extends the accumulated knowledge of previous investigations, suggesting that the original DAS remains a reliable and stable instrument for measuring driving anger in day-to-day driving conditions

Anger · Confirmatory factor analysis · Dysfunctional family · Environmental health · Geography · Measurement invariance · Poison control · Scale (ratio · Statistics · Structural equation modeling · Applied Psychology · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Clinical Psychology · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Traffic and Road Safety · Workplace Health and Well-being