Abstract
Traffic, the expression of anger is often an environment that we come across. When the anger of the individual to consider the negative impact they have on traffic, the evaluation of the different components related to the driver anger and their measurement is of utmost importance. The main purpose of this study, which has been developed in relation to anger in traffic Angry Thoughts (DATQ) by the Turkish version is to achieve the reliability and validity findings. For this purpose between 20-62 years old, with a driver's license and drive a vehicle at least one year 127 women (42.8%) and 170 men (57.2%) accounted for a total of 297 people, including sample. In this study, it was used Driver’s Angry Thoughts Questionnaire (DATQ) as well as Driving Anger Expression Inventory (DAX) and Driving Anger Scale (DAS) as an instruments. As a result of factor analysis judgmental revenge thinking positive coping thinking, aggressive thinking and pejorative labeling thinking were obtained, including a five-factor structure. Cronbach alpha reliability coefficients of this factor subscales ranged from .86 to .95. Scale item-total correlations and split-half reliability coefficients were also high. All results obtained are discussed in the light of the literature.
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