Citation

Galovski TE, Blanchard EB. Behav. Res. Ther. 2002; 40(12): 1385-1402.

Affiliation

Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA. jgalovski@msn.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12457634

Abstract

This study tested the efficacy of a cognitive-behavioral psychological intervention (CBT) targeting aggressive driving behaviors within both a court-referred (N=20) and a self-referred community (N=8) sample as compared to a symptom monitoring (SM) only control condition. Treatment outcome was assessed through the use of daily driving diaries, standard psychological tests, and a global rating of change scale. The CBT treatment condition improved more than the SM condition as assessed through the daily driving diaries. Although the court-referred and self-referred samples showed equivalent improvement on the driving diaries, the self-referred group improved more on measures of general anger. Standardized measures of driving anger, state anxiety and measures of general anger indicated significant change in the expected direction. Aggressive drivers who met criteria for Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) showed a trend to improve less than non-IED aggressive drivers. Treatment gains were maintained at the 2-month follow-up point.

Language: en