Abstract
Nowadays, anger while driving on the road is a crucial issue in Malaysia. The anger of driver may lead to traffic crashes. Road accident issue is an important agenda in every country. Driver behaviour and attitude such as impatience, hasty and hot-tempered on the road has become one of the causes in road accidents. Uncontrolled anger will affect the behavior of oneself during driving and could cause an individual to display aggressive attitude. Therefore, this study is aimed to identify contributing factor in anger of drivers and evaluate the Driver Anger Scale (DAS) in Batu Pahat, Johor. In addition, this study also analyzes the relationship between driver anger and the factor of DAS. Cross sectional study method was conducted in this study by distributing 250 questionnaires to car drivers. The data collectied was analyzed by descriptive, chi-square test, correlation and regression analysis using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0. The findings show that the discourtesy was reported as the most dominant factor contributing to driver anger. As a recommendation, to overcome driver anger issue, the authorities should prepare an action plan, promote and nurture public to practice good driving behaviour. Moreover, curriculum and driver training lesson should be improved to create better attitude among drivers. Drivers also should change their driving attitude by becoming safe drivers and exhibiting defensive driving skills on the road.
Highlights
Anger is an emotion that is commonly experienced while driving but angry drivers present a problem on the roads
This is because driver anger has been identified as a predictor of traffic crashes and precursor to behaviors that increase the likely hood of traffic crashed [2]
Batu Pahat was chosen as the location of study because it represents the region where the highest number of road accidents were recorded in Johor [9]
Summary
Anger is an emotion that is commonly experienced while driving but angry drivers present a problem on the roads. Driver anger was conceptualised as a personality trait related to an individual’s underlying predisposition for anger, but specific to road situations [1]. This is because driver anger has been identified as a predictor of traffic crashes and precursor to behaviors that increase the likely hood of traffic crashed [2]. Can become aggressive and tend to incorporate a higher level of risk-taking into their driving style [5]. High anger drivers experience more anger triggers, frequent and intense anger, hostile thinking, aggression, risky behavior, and some crash related conditions than low anger drivers [7]
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