Ridding the cursing box: stress, self-esteem, and aggression as influencing factors for road rage
Authors
Charec, Petru-Adrian
Issue Date
2022
Degree
BA (Hons) in Psychology
Publisher
Dublin Business School
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Abstract
Driving every day can be an experience that can steer the road participant from low arousal to the extreme high with devastating consequences if control is lost and anger becomes hostile. The present cross-sectional anonymous survey investigated the gender differences in driving anger and the roles of stress, self-esteem and trait aggression in the onset of road rage. The three proposed hypotheses demonstrated that for a heterogeneous general population of drivers (N = 70), no gender differences were found in driving anger. Furthermore, stress, self-esteem, and aggression had a significant impact on driving anger. Future research should focus on using new wave technology (i.e., autonomous driving assisting systems) and the internet of things to develop means to decrease the onset of road rage, protect life, and diminish insurance and health costs.