Validity and reliability of drivers anger scale and its relationship with psychological parameters and evaluation of differences based on age and sex (Case study: Tehran metropolis)

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ABDI BEHNAM; NASERALAVI SEYED SABER

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Journal: Modares Civil Engineering journal Year:2021 | Volume:21 | Issue:6 Page(s): 75-86

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Validity and reliability of drivers anger scale and its relationship with psychological parameters and evaluation of differences based on age and sex (Case study: Tehran metropolis)

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ABDI BEHNAM | NASERALAVI SEYED SABER | Issue Writer Certificate

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Driving anger

Aggression

Accidents

Violence

Factor analysis

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Every year, road Accidents around the world lead to many losses and damages around the world, the most important factor in the occurrence of these Accidents is the human factor. The role of humans in Accidents is evaluated from different aspects, which Driving anger is one of the most important among them. The issue of Driving anger, like all human behavior, has always been very complex. Therefore, different scales have been proposed to evaluate this human behavior, which can be said that the Driving anger Scale (DAS) is one of the most valid and widely used. For this reason, in recent years, this efficient tool has been translated into various languages around the world and used in different countries. The results of previous studies showed that cultural, linguistic, economic, social, and etc. differences between societies lead to the formation of different structures of this tool. Therefore, before using this useful tool in any research field, at first, its structure in each of the societies should be examined. Therefore, this study intends to evaluate the validity and reliability and find appropriate structure for this scale among Iranian drivers using statistical tools. Therefore, to evaluate the validity of this tool, both exploratory Factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory Factor analysis (CFA) were used. The results of exploratory Factor analysis considered the six-factor structure is suitable for this scale. Then, the six-factor structure obtained from the exploratory Factor analysis stage was compared as two distinct models considering the existence and absence of correlations between subscales as well as a one-factor model of the questionnaire using confirmatory Factor analysis. The results of these models showed that the structure of the DAS’, s single-factor model was not appropriate compared to the other two structures and in addition, the best values were related to the six-factor structure without considering the correlation between components. Also, ANOVA test was used to evaluate the effect of age and gender differences on each component of this scale. Based on the results of this test, in general, there are statistically significant differences in Driving anger among Iranian participants in terms of age and gender. Young people, meanwhile, scored relatively higher on all six components (discourtesy, traffic obstruction, slow driving, illegal driving, police presence, and hostile gestures) and DAS’, s total score. Also, in terms of significant gender differences, among participants men had higher scores than women in all cases except in the traffic congestion subscale. In addition, the results of correlation analysis showed that there are significant relationships between DAS’, s subscales with Depression-Anxiety-Stress Scale (DASS) and Bass and Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BPAQ) total scores. On the other hand, the relationship between the number of significant Accidents with the traffic obstruction subscale, overall DASS and BPAQ scores is significant and the relationship between the number of minor Accidents with slow driving subscale and the overall BPAQ score is statistically significant. Finally, according to the results obtained from this study, the Driving anger Scale (DAS) is a valid and reliable instrument for measuring the anger among Iranian drivers.

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ABDI, BEHNAM, & NASERALAVI, SEYED SABER. (2021). Validity and reliability of drivers anger scale and its relationship with psychological parameters and evaluation of differences based on age and sex (Case study: Tehran metropolis). MODARES CIVIL ENGINEERING JOURNAL, 21(6 ), 75-86. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/1036234/en

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ABDI BEHNAM, NASERALAVI SEYED SABER. Validity and reliability of drivers anger scale and its relationship with psychological parameters and evaluation of differences based on age and sex (Case study: Tehran metropolis). MODARES CIVIL ENGINEERING JOURNAL[Internet]. 2021;21(6 ):75-86. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/1036234/en

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BEHNAM ABDI, and SEYED SABER NASERALAVI, “Validity and reliability of drivers anger scale and its relationship with psychological parameters and evaluation of differences based on age and sex (Case study: Tehran metropolis),” MODARES CIVIL ENGINEERING JOURNAL, vol. 21, no. 6 , pp. 75–86, 2021, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/1036234/en

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