Driver Psychology, Style & Traits

Research on drivers' emotional states, dispositions and driving style, plus the self-report instruments used to measure them.

What's here. Affective and motivational states at the wheel (stress_driving, anger_road_rage, affect_mood, anxiety_depression_driving) and dispositional style (risk_taking, sensation_seeking, aggressive_driving). Also the social and ambient inputs to driver state (passenger_effects, music_audio_mood) and the measurement side itself, dbq_psychometrics: scale construction, factor structure and validation of driver self-report questionnaires.

What isn't here.

• stable between-driver differences: personality dimensions, sex and gender, culture, sensory and cognitive ability — Individual Differences (Driver Population). This shelf holds states and style; who the driver is as a fixed attribute sits in the sibling category. Trait-predicts-state work (a personality scale against anger at the wheel) is frequently tagged in both, so check the neighbour before concluding it is missing.
• affect_cognition — Cognitive Psychology Foundations. Almost the same name as affect_mood here, different shelf. affect_mood is mood and emotion in a driving context; affect_cognition is the basic-science literature on emotion and cognitive processing, with no driving task required.
• child_passenger_safety — Occupant Protection Behavior. passenger_effects here concerns how the presence of passengers changes the driver. Restraints, car seats and child occupant injury are in occupant_protection.