Driving anger in China: Psychometric properties of the Driving Anger Scale (DAS) and its relationship with aggressive driving

Dimensions of driving anger and their relationships with aberrant driving

“…The mean level of anger provoked by the 14 scenarios was 2.46 on a 5-point scale (Table 2), which was similar to the mean Chinese driver anger value of 2.54 reported by Li et al (2014). The item that provoked the highest level of anger was item 9 ("Someone makes an obscene gesture toward you about your driving") while item 5 ("You pass a radar speed trap") provoked the lowest level of anger.…”

“…It has been suggested that the relations between driving anger and aberrant driving behaviours may be more complex than currently conceptualized by traffic safety researchers (Nesbit et al, 2007;Li et al, 2014). This study investigated how the dimensions of driving anger may distinct and have different relationships to driving behaviours using a Chinese driver sample.…”

Assessments of risky driving: A Go/No-Go simulator driving task to evaluate risky decision-making and associated behavioral patterns

“…The 33-item DAS (J. L. Deffenbacher et al, 1994) was translated into Chinese version and validated to measure drivers' aggression (Li et al, 2014). Participants were evaluated on a five-point Likert scale (from 1-not at all, to 5-very much) to indicate the amount of anger they experienced when encountering a series of traffic situations.…”

The Induction and Detection Method of Angry Driving: Evidences from EEG and Physiological Signals

“…Meanwhile, driving anger was also influenced by the driving environment and vehicle state. An evidence from an on-road experiment showed that slow driving, traffic violations, and traffic congestion can easily make drivers experience angry driving [16]. Smart et al found that high performance vehicles tend to induce a more frequent angry driving [17].…”