Driving anger among motor vehicle drivers in China: A cross-sectional survey

Fei, Gaoqiang; Zhang, Xujun; Yang, Yaming; Yao, Hongyan; Yang, Jie; Li, Xinyu; Gao, Lei; Zhou, Yixi; Wu, Ming; Stallones, Lorann; Xiang, Henry

doi:10.1080/15389588.2019.1623396

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“…The findings obtained in the current study proved that the six-dimensional factor model gave good fit indices across samples from three culturally different countries within the Western Balkans region: Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. These results proved to be congruent with previous research and confirmed the validity of the six-factor model of the DAS [ 17 , 19 , 22 , 24 , 28 , 29 , 30 ]. The research findings showed that the factor loadings of indicator 31 (“encounter road construction and detours”) are lower than the others.…”

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“…However, the factor loadings on this indicator were higher than the recommended cut-off value. Recent studies have shown that this indicator had lower factor loadings compared to other indicators [ 18 , 19 , 30 ], which suggests that it might not be appropriate for capturing situations in which professional drivers experience anger due to TO. In addition, these situations are not common in traffic, and therefore they may not adequately reflect everyday traffic obstructions.…”

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“…Since the initial publication, the dimensionality of the DAS has attracted significant attention, and it has been examined in empirical research among different cultures. For example, it has been validated with datasets from the United Kingdom [ 16 ] Germany [ 17 , 18 ], France [ 19 , 20 , 21 ], Spain [ 22 ], Romania [ 23 ], Ukraine [ 24 ], Serbia [ 11 ], Turkey [ 25 ], Argentina [ 26 ], New Zealand [ 27 , 28 ], Malaysia [ 29 ] and China [ 30 , 31 , 32 ]. The vast majority of the above-mentioned research has shown that the original six-factor solution had adequate model fit indices, particularly if similar item pairs were covaried or if some of the items were eliminated as a result of factor loadings that were low or problems regarding cross-loadings [ 17 , 19 , 22 , 24 , 28 , 29 , 30 ].…”

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“…For example, it has been validated with datasets from the United Kingdom [ 16 ] Germany [ 17 , 18 ], France [ 19 , 20 , 21 ], Spain [ 22 ], Romania [ 23 ], Ukraine [ 24 ], Serbia [ 11 ], Turkey [ 25 ], Argentina [ 26 ], New Zealand [ 27 , 28 ], Malaysia [ 29 ] and China [ 30 , 31 , 32 ]. The vast majority of the above-mentioned research has shown that the original six-factor solution had adequate model fit indices, particularly if similar item pairs were covaried or if some of the items were eliminated as a result of factor loadings that were low or problems regarding cross-loadings [ 17 , 19 , 22 , 24 , 28 , 29 , 30 ]. However, there are few research works that have failed to reproduce the original six-factor structure [ 11 , 16 , 20 , 21 , 26 , 27 ].…”

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“…Nevertheless, their results also revealed the absence of significant differences in aggressive behaviours between divergent categories of professional drivers. Previous empirical research focusing on DA experience and expression has mainly been performed within a particular type of professional drivers, such as truck drivers [ 30 , 31 , 53 ]. The fact that the comparison between various types of professional drivers regarding these components has attracted insufficient attention in prior research indicates the need for the present study to bridge the gap mentioned above.…”

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Differences in Driving Anger among Professional Drivers: A Cross-Cultural Study

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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.

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