Road aggression among drinking drivers: Alcohol and non-alcohol effects on aggressive driving and road rage
โ Scribed by Jiang Yu; Peggy Chin Evans; Lucia Perfetti
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 223 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0047-2352
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โฆ Synopsis
This study specified aggressive driving (AD) and road rage (RR) and examined a number of alcohol and nonalcohol effects on and the reciprocity between the two behaviors in a drinking driving population. The sample contained 431 clients (79 percent men) who volunteered to complete a self-report survey from fifty alcoholism and substance abuse treatment facilities across New York State. All subjects were undergoing alcoholism treatment because of a drinking driving-related reason. Structural equation modeling with the LISREL program was employed to estimate the reciprocal effects between AD and RR. The results demonstrated that AD and RR were two separate behaviors that simultaneously influenced each other. Additionally, AD and RR, as problem behaviors, tended to be affected mostly by other problem behaviors, such as alcohol problems, impaired driving, and feelings of depression, rather than general situations or behaviors, such as the frequency of alcohol use, driving after drinking, and the experience of stressful life events. The findings convey a message to the criminal justice field as well as alcoholism and substance abuse treatment professionals that addressing the problem of road aggression requires special attention to persons with alcohol problems and especially those with multiple drinking driving offenses.
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