Attitudes towards risky driving and Dark Triad personality traits in a group of learner drivers

Factors underpinning unsafe driving: A systematic literature review of car drivers

“…Put simply, negative personality traits tend toward negative driving behaviours/outcomes. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the more negative personality traits, such as those of the dark triad (Endriulaitienė et al, 2018) map onto riskier attitudes toward drunk driving, speeding and the violation of traffic rules. Conversely, individuals high in altruistic personality traits, as well as the more conscientious driver correlate with more positive road safety behaviour Wang et al, 2018;Zhang, 2018).…”

Dark Tetrad and COVID-19 protective measures: Mediating effects of risk-taking tendencies

“…Furthermore, Grover and Furnham (2021) found that secondary psychopathy, aspects of psychopathy which contains excessive Neuroticism, impulsivity, and sensation seeking, is the most consistent predictor of risk-taking (both self-reported and experimentally induced) and narcissism is related to self-reported tendency toward risk-taking. Additionally, Dark Triad traits were related to the riskier driving attitudes (speeding, drunk driving, joyriding, and violating rules for keeping up with traffic flow, see Endriulaitienė et al, 2018 ), indicating that they are related to safety risks.…”

Targeting Smartphone Use While Driving: Drivers’ Reactions to Different Types of Safety Messages

“…The present study provides only limited answers about the effectiveness of road safety appeals, as only shortterm effects were focused on. Finally, there is always discussion in the literature of whether the change in intentions or emotions is the indicator of real behavior change [26,28,30,31]. In this study, the outcome variables were distal and indirect measures of behavior change, still acknowledging that emotions have the impact on cognitions and subsequently on driving behavior [20].…”

“…Consequently, according to the Theory of Planned Behavior, attitudes and beliefs should increase intentions to behave more safely and intentions could turn into real driving behavior [29]. Not always do intentions result in real driving behavior as many other variables may be important in a particular situation [26,28,30,31], still, driving intentions were found to be the strongest predictor of driving behavior in many previous studies [32,33]. As road safety messages with either negative or positive emotional appeals were found to be more effective compared to rational argumentations [16,[18][19][20]24], emotional appeals were acknowledged as the key element of the possible effectiveness of safety messages in this emotion-cognition-intention-behavior relationship [19].…”