Parker Dianne, Lajunen Timo, Summala Heikki
Department of Psychology, University of Manchester, UK.
Accid Anal Prev. 2002 Mar;34(2):229-35. doi: 10.1016/s0001-4575(01)00018-5.
Recent reports of 'road rage' in the British media give the impression that driver aggression is escalating. In order to understand this phenomenon we need to know what it is about driving that provokes motorists to feel anger and then to go on to express that anger in the form of aggression. A postal questionnaire survey of more than 2500 drivers was carried out in three European countries: Britain, Finland and the Netherlands. The study had three main aims: (a) to discover how angry, if at all, a range of situations on the road make drivers, (b) to find out how many drivers are likely to react aggressively to those situations, and (c) to investigate individual and/or cultural differences in terms of anger and/or aggressive responses among motorists. Results indicate that the same types of behaviour provoke anger and aggression in all three countries, and that traffic density may play a role.
英国媒体近期关于“路怒症”的报道给人一种司机攻击性在不断升级的印象。为了理解这一现象，我们需要知道驾驶过程中的哪些因素会激怒驾车者，进而使他们以攻击性的形式表达愤怒。在英国、芬兰和荷兰这三个欧洲国家对2500多名司机进行了邮政问卷调查。该研究有三个主要目标：（a）了解一系列道路情况会使司机有多愤怒（如果会愤怒的话），（b）查明有多少司机可能会对这些情况做出攻击性反应，以及（c）调查驾车者在愤怒和/或攻击性反应方面的个体和/或文化差异。结果表明，相同类型的行为在这三个国家都会引发愤怒和攻击性，并且交通密度可能起到一定作用。
