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Citation |
Feng Z, Zhan J, Ma C, Lei Y, Liu J, Zhang W, Wang K. Transp. Res. F Traffic Psychol. Behav. 2018; 55: 101-113. |
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(Copyright © 2018, Elsevier Publishing) |
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Abstract |
This research aimed to explore the effectiveness of a cognitive intervention and a forgiveness intervention for reducing anger and aggressive expression while driving and to compare the differences between the two interventions. The sample included 54 male bus drivers who were randomly divided into three groups, with 18 drivers in each group. The participants in the first group received the cognitive intervention, the second group received the forgiveness intervention, and the third group served as the no-treatment control group. All participants in the three groups completed questionnaires related to driving anger at the post-treatment assessment. The two intervention groups were retested after two months. At post-treatment, the results showed that both the cognitive and forgiveness interventions led to significant reductions in some measures of driving anger and physically aggressive expression and to significant increases in adaptive/constructive expressions of driving anger and the ability to control anger. Furthermore, the interventions promoted drivers' use of positive cognitive strategies to improve negative emotions. However, the three groups did not differ significantly from one another with regard to the slow driving factor of driving anger, vehicular and verbally aggressive expressions and the level of trait anger. Additionally, participants in the cognitive intervention group experienced significantly greater improvement in driving anger, especially in the discourtesy and traffic obstruction factors and negative cognitive strategies, than participants in the forgiveness intervention group. Limitations and implications for interventions and research are discussed. Language: en |
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Keywords |
Cognitive emotion regulation; Cognitive intervention; Cognitive reappraisal; Driving anger; Forgiveness intervention |