An exploratory study of the relationship between road rage and crash experience in a representative sample of US drivers

Wells‐Parker, Elisabeth; Ceminsky, Jennifer L.; Hallberg, Victoria; Snow, Ronald W.; Dunaway, Gregory; Guiling, Shawn F.; Williams, Martha R.; Anderson, Bradley J.

doi:10.1016/s0001-4575(01)00021-5

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“…These indicators quantify the frequency of involvement in progressively more severe forms of road rage behaviour, beginning with general expressions of anger and frustration directed at other drivers (for example, waving hands, gesturing, and shouting) to physical intimidation (for example, tailgating, cutting in and out, and blocking traffic on purpose), verbal threats, physical injury, damage to other vehicles, and death. A similar set of road rage items has been developed and successfully tested in empirical studies of road rage in the US (4,6). Descriptive statistics for these items are presented in Table 1.…”

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Psychiatric Distress among Road Rage Victims and Perpetrators

Smart

Asbridge²,

Mann³

et al. 2003

Can J Psychiatry

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R oad rage has recently appeared as a new problem for drivers in many countries, with reports coming from Australia (1), Canada (2), the UK (3), and the US (4). Newspaper reports on road rage are increasing in Canada (5) and the US (6,7). Reported cases of road rage increased by a factor of 15 in Canadian newspapers between 1996 and 2000 (5). Similarly, in the 1990s, annual newspaper reporting of road rage incidents in the US numbered in the thousands (7). There is no generally accepted definition of road rage, although it has been defined as "a situation where a driver or passenger attempts to kill, injure, or intimidate a pedestrian or another driver or passenger or to damage their vehicle in a traffic incident" (2). Only a few studies have examined the characteristics of road rage victims and perpetrators beyond their age and sex. Several studies have shown that angry drivers are more likely to be young, to be men, and to engage in more arguments and violent confrontations with other drivers (3,5). However, the source of anger and aggression among drivers is less well

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Psychiatric Distress among Road Rage Victims and Perpetrators

Smart

Asbridge²,

Mann³

et al. 2003

Can J Psychiatry

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“…Personality characteristics such as aggressiveness, hostility, sensation seeking, normlessness, disinhibition, susceptibility to boredom, impaired risk perception, and perceived invulnerability, are associated with higher rates of risky driving behaviors and negative driving outcomes (Burns & Wilde, 1995;Furnham & Saipe, 1993;Greene et al, 2000;Iversen & Rundmo, 2002;Jonah, 1997;McMillen et al, 1991;van Beurden et al, 2005;Vavrik, 1997;Wells-Parker et al, 2002).…”

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The Role of Personality Characteristics in Young Adult Driving

Patil

Shope

Raghunathan

et al. 2006

Traffic Injury Prevention

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“…Acting on that anger in ways likely to cause injury (eg, deliberately running into another vehicle) may also be uncommon. 11 Even among those injured patients who acknowledged some responsibility for their own injury, the odds ratios were still close to 1 and not signifi cant.…”

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“…In a survey of US drivers, acting on anger by engaging in threatening driving behaviors was associated with the person' s overall crash experience, but the relationship between state anger and a specifi c crash event was not examined. 11 The studies we found examined either trait anger and injury, or state anger and a proxy for injury. None examined state anger and the risk of an injury occurring during that episode of anger.…”

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State Anger and the Risk of Injury: A Case-Control and Case-Crossover Study

Vinson

Arelli²

2006

The Annals of Family Medicine

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PURPOSE Previous studies have examined anger at a given moment (state anger) and proxies for injury, or anger as a trait and injuries per se. Findings have been inconsistent. We sought to defi ne further the relationship between state anger and risk of injury. METHODSWe conducted a case-control and case-crossover study in all 3 emergency departments in 1 county in Missouri. Cases were patients seeking care for an acute injury. They were compared with 2 controls: the patient himself or herself 24 hours before, and an individual recruited by telephone from the community and matched for age-group, sex, and time. Self-reported anger was assessed with 3 Likert scale items. Anger just before the injury was compared in case-crossover analyses with the respondent's own level of anger 24 hours before, and in standard case-control analyses with community participants' level of anger at the same hour the same day of the week in a subsequent week. RESULTSOf 2,517 patients, 2,446 provided data on anger just before the injury, and 2,117 reported data for 24 hours before injury. Of 1,856 community individuals, 1,533 provided complete data. Anger was prevalent. Of injured patients, 9%, 7%, and 4% reported feeling "quite a bit" or "extremely" "irritable," "angry," and "hostile," respectively, just before injury. Odds ratios for risk of injury were notably higher for greater degrees of anger; for example, for "angry," they were 1.8 (95% confi dence interval, 1.1-2.7) for "quite a bit" and 7.2 (3.9-13) for "extremely." Odds ratios in women were substantially lower than those in men. Anger was not associated with fall and traffi c injuries, but anger was strongly associated with intentional injuries infl icted by another person in both men and women.CONCLUSIONS High levels of self-reported state anger increase the risk of injury, especially among men, and specifi cally the risk of intentional injury in both sexes.

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An exploratory study of the relationship between road rage and crash experience in a representative sample of US drivers

Cited by 117 publications

References 6 publications

Psychiatric Distress among Road Rage Victims and Perpetrators

Psychiatric Distress among Road Rage Victims and Perpetrators

The Role of Personality Characteristics in Young Adult Driving

State Anger and the Risk of Injury: A Case-Control and Case-Crossover Study

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