Citation

Burtăverde V, Chraif M, Aniţei M, Dumitru D. Psychol. Rep. 2017; 120(2): 255-270.

Affiliation

Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0033294116688890

PMID

28558628

Abstract

This research tested the association between the HEXACO personality model and risky driving behavior as well as the predictive power of the HEXACO model in explaining risky driving behavior compared with the Big Five model. In Sample 1, 227 undergraduate students completed measures of the HEXACO personality model, the Big Five model, and driving aggression. In Sample 2, 244 community respondents completed measures of the HEXACO personality model, the Big Five model, and driving styles.

RESULTS showed that the Honesty-Humility factor is an important addition to personality models that aim to explain risky driving behavior as being related to all forms of driving aggression as well as to maladaptive and adaptive driving styles and having incremental validity in predicting verbally aggressive expression, risky driving, high-velocity driving, and careful driving. Moreover, compared with the Big Five model, the HEXACO model had better predictive power of aggressive driving.

Language: en

Keywords

Big Five; HEXACO personality model; driving aggression; driving styles; personality domain; risky driving behavior