Abstract
The relationship between some personality factors and accident risk. The aim of this research was to study the relationship between personality and accident-risk driving behaviour in order to make recommendations for the selection of professional drivers. A test battery comprising a biographical and an opinion questionnaire, the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, the Picture Situation Test, an attitude scale to measure aggression and an information-processing test was administered to 199 coloured bus drivers. The test group was divided into three subgroups according to involvement in and degree of seriousness of the accidents. By means of step-wise multiple regression analyses a formula was developed according to which accident risk could be predicted on the basis of certain personality traits. These traits, when combined with an aggressive attitude in a road safety situation, were dominance, carefreeness, emotional sensitivity and shrewdness.
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