Authors : Ari Widyanti and Frisca Sutanto
Abstract: Traffic accidents are the third largest causes of death in Indonesia in the past 3 years according to the WHO. The 80% of traffic accidents are caused by human error. One of the factors associated with human error is personality. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between type-A personality with risky driving behavior. A total of 113 respondents who were young driver fill in Manchester Driver Behavior Questionnaire (MDBQ) which is used to investigate risky driving behavior that are aggressive violation, ordinary violation, errors and lapses. Glazer personality-type questionnaire was used to assess type-A personality. Respondents are also asked to perform driving task in driving simulator. In this simulator, the respondents were asked to simulate driving task using city car driving software for 1 h and scores of violations committed during driving was recorded. There is a significant positive correlation between high-A personality type with ordinary violations and lapses. Aggressive violations and violation committed while driving task is also likely to increase from the low-A personality type to high-A personality type. Implication of the study is discussed.
Ari Widyanti and Frisca Sutanto, 2017. Correlation between Type-A Personality and Risky Driving Behavior. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 3362-3366.