Effects of viewing a road trauma film on emotional and motivational factors

✍ Scribed by Gregory J. Boyle

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 412 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0001-4575
• DOI: 10.1016/0001-4575(84)90051-4

✦ Synopsis

The Eight State Questionnaire (SSQ), and the Motivation Analysis Test (MAT) were administered to 58 college students before and after viewing a five-minute film segment, portraying graphic documentary scenes of automobile accident victims, and part of a pathologist's autopsy of a road victim. Presentation of this high-threat stimulus induced an intense elevation in several emotional and motivational states. Most changes implied a general&d psychological disorientation and concomitant diminution in motor skills. In accord with previous evidence, the present findings suggested that fear appeals are probably ineffective in augmenting safer driving behaviors.