Moral Judgment and Drivers' Behavior among Brazilian Students

Abstract

It is well known that lifestyle, social deviance, and criminal background are related to involvement in road accidents. This study addressed the connection between moral judgment and driving behavior, especially deliberate violations of the traffic law. 260 university students (age 18-30 years, 41% women) completed the Sociomoral Reflection Measure and Driver Behavior Questionnaire. No significant associations were found, probably due to the small variance in Moral Judgment score in this selected sample. This study presented a Portuguese 28-item version of the Driver Behavior Questionnaire that reproduced the same four-factor structure as the British version: ordinary violations, aggressive violations, errors, and lapses.

Driver Behaviour Questionnaire: A follow-up study

“…Overall, the original three-or four-factor (errors, lapses, aggressive and ordinary violations) structure has been broadly replicated in studies conducted in UK (Lawton et al, 1997a,b;Parker et al, 1992Parker et al, , 1995bReason et al, 1990) and in international studies including professional and non-professional drivers (in Australia by Blockey and Hartley, 1995; in Brazil by Bianchi and Summala, 2002; in China by Xie and Parker, 2002; in Greece by Kontogiannis et al, 2002; in Finland by Mesken et al, 2002;in New Zealand by Sullman et al, 2002;in Sweden byÅberg and Rimmö, 1998; in Turkey by Lajunen et al, 2003). Recently, Lajunen et al (2004) proved the cross-cultural stability of the DBQ with a high degree of similarity between the four-factor structures among normal drivers in large samples of British, Finnish and Dutch drivers.…”

“I Drive Well, the Problem is the Other Driver”: A Study About the Self-Assessment of the Ability to Drive

“…After completing these scales, participants responded to the Driver Behavior Questionnaire (dbq) by Lawton, Parker, Manstead and Stradling (1997), which was translated and adapted to Brazil by Bianchi and Summala (2002), containing 28 questions. Participants should indicate on a scale from 0 (never) to 5 (always) the frequency of each behavior.…”