Retaliatory Aggressive Driving: A Justice Perspective

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dc.contributor.advisorWiesenthal, David L.
dc.creatorWright Roseborough, James Everett
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-26T14:45:03Z
dc.date.available2015-01-26T14:45:03Z
dc.date.copyright2014-07-21
dc.date.issued2015-01-26
dc.date.updated2015-01-26T14:45:03Z
dc.degree.disciplinePsychology (Functional Area: Social and Personality)
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractAggressive driving behaviours such as rude hand gestures, horn honking, tailgating, or causing damage to another vehicle continue to be a threat to motorist well-being. Based on the General Aggression Model and the attribution-of-blame model of injustice, the current study developed and tested a model of aggressive driving that included individual differences and cognitions related to the perception of injustice, driving anger, and retaliatory aggressive driving. A sample of 269 undergraduate students viewed five animated unjust driving scenarios and responded to items assessing cognitive, emotional, and behavioural responses. Results supported a model of aggressive driving suggesting that the belief in an unjust world contributes to perceptions of injustice via sensitivity to unjust events, and from perceptions of injustice to retaliatory aggressive driving via driving anger. Results also provided support for an attribution model of perceptions of injustice and provided a unique investigation of these attributions and perceptions in the driving environment. The current study also developed and found support for a new measure of driving justice sensitivity that may prove to be useful for future driving research. As a whole, this study provides a unique examination retaliatory aggressive driving, and data that can contribute to driving training programs to help reduce driving aggression.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/28228
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectPsychology
dc.subjectSocial psychology
dc.subjectPersonality psychology
dc.subject.keywordsMediationen_US
dc.subject.keywordsPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsDrivingen_US
dc.subject.keywordsDriveren_US
dc.subject.keywordsAngeren_US
dc.subject.keywordsEmotionen_US
dc.subject.keywordsAggressionen_US
dc.subject.keywordsUnjust worlden_US
dc.subject.keywordsJust worlden_US
dc.subject.keywordsJusticeen_US
dc.subject.keywordsInjusticeen_US
dc.subject.keywordsGeneral aggression modelen_US
dc.subject.keywordsAttributionsen_US
dc.subject.keywordsJustice sensitivityen_US
dc.subject.keywordsPersonalityen_US
dc.subject.keywordsStructural equation modellingen_US
dc.titleRetaliatory Aggressive Driving: A Justice Perspective
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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