Determining Risky Driving according to the Constructs of Mentalization and Personality Organization with the Modifying Role of Aggressive Driving
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Abstract
Objective: This study aimed to model risky driving and predict its occurrence according to the constructs of personality organization and mentalization considering the role of aggressive driving as a mediator construct.
Method: A total of 428 individuals (219 men and 209 women) were selected using convenience sampling. The participants completed self-report questionnaires on aggressive driving, risky driving, mentalization and personality organization Also, data were analyzed using structural equating model and weighted regression.
Results: The results of this study showed a goof fit of the proposed structural model for predicting risky driving after some modifications (CFI = 0.95, RMSEA = 0.09). According to the results of regression weights, personality organization (regression weighted: 0.044) and aggressive driving (regression weighted: 0.98) were the strongest and mentalization (regression weighted: 0.004) was the weakest predictor of risky driving. Aggressive driving was the strongest direct predictor and personality organization the strongest indirect predictor of risky driving.
Conclusion: Risky driving is a function of direct and indirect personal factors. Moreover, emotional factors have a direct effect on risky driving and more substantial constructs, such as personality, have an indirect effect on risky driving.
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3. Danaf M, Abou-Zeid M, Kaysi I. Modeling anger and aggressive driving behavior in a dynamic choice–latent variable model Accid Anal Prev. 2015;75:105-18.
4. Dula CS, Geller ES, Chumney FL. A social-cognitive model of driver aggression: Taking situations and individual differences into account. Current Psychology. 2011;30(4):324-34.
5. Feng Z, Lei Y, Liu H, Kumfer WJ, Zhang W, Wang K, et al. Driving anger in China: A case study on professional drivers. Transportation research part F: traffic psychology and behaviour. 2016;42:255-66.
6. Gordon H. Psychiatry, the law and death on the roads. Advances in Psychiatric treatment. 2004 Nov;10(6):439-45.
7. Smits DJ, Vermote R, Claes L, Vertommen H. The inventory of personality organization–revised: construction of an abridged version. European journal of psychological assessment. 2009;25(4):223-30.
8. Kernberg O. Borderline personality organization. J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 1967;15(3):641-85.
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14. Beanland V, Sellbom M, Johnson AK. Personality domains and traits that predict self-reported aberrant driving behaviours in a southeastern US university sample. Accid Anal Prev. 2014;72:184-92.
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19. Dimitrijević A, Hanak N, Altaras Dimitrijević A, Jolić Marjanović Z. The Mentalization Scale (MentS): A self-report measure for the assessment of mentalizing capacity. Journal of personality assessment. 2018;100(3):268-80.
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30. Aronson Elliot, Linzey Gradner. Hand book of social psychology. New York: Random House. 1985.
31. Rosenblum S. The Dynamics Of Human Aggression. By Ana-Maria Rizzuto, WW Meissner, SJ, Dan H. Buie. New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2004, 30. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 2006;54(1):298-303.
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Seydi M, Rahimian Boogar I, Talepasand S. Determining Risky Driving according to the Constructs of Mentalization and Personality Organization with the Modifying Role of Aggressive Driving. Iran J Psychiatry. 2019;14(4):274-282.
