Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Montenegro, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro.
Faculty of Transportation, Pan-European University "Apeiron", 78000 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Mar 31;19(7):4168. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19074168.
Public transport systems have a vital role in achieving sustainable mobility goals, diminishing reliance on private individual transport and improving overall public health. Despite that, transport operators are often in situations that require them to cope with complex working conditions that lead to negative emotions such as anger. The current study represents a segment of the permanent global research agenda that seeks to devise and test a psychometric scale for measuring driving anger in professional drivers. The present research is one of the first attempts to examine the factorial validity and the cross-cultural measurement equivalence of the broadly utilized Driving Anger Scale (DAS) in three culturally different countries within the Western Balkans region. The respondents (N = 1054) were taxi, bus and truck drivers between 19 and 75 years of age. The results pertaining to confirmatory factor analysis showed that there were adequate fit statistics for the specified six-dimensional measurement model of the DAS. The measurement invariance testing showed that the meaning and psychometric performance of driving anger and its facets are equivalent across countries and types of professional drivers. Furthermore, the results showed that driving anger facets had positive correlations with dysfunctional ways of expressing anger and negative correlations with the form of the prosocial anger expression. In addition, the results revealed that taxi drivers displayed considerably higher levels of anger while driving and aggressive driving than truck and bus drivers. Overall, this study replicates and extends the accumulated knowledge of previous investigations, suggesting that the original DAS remains a reliable and stable instrument for measuring driving anger in day-to-day driving conditions.
公共交通系统在实现可持续交通目标方面发挥着至关重要的作用，减少了对私人个体交通的依赖，提高了整体公共健康水平。尽管如此，交通运营商经常面临需要应对复杂工作条件的情况，这些条件会导致愤怒等负面情绪。本研究代表了一个长期的全球研究议程的一部分，旨在设计和测试一种用于测量职业驾驶员驾驶愤怒的心理计量学量表。本研究是首次尝试在三个文化不同的西巴尔干地区国家检验广泛使用的驾驶愤怒量表（DAS）的因子有效性和跨文化测量等效性。受访者（N=1054）为 19 至 75 岁的出租车、公共汽车和卡车司机。与验证性因子分析相关的结果表明，DAS 的指定六维测量模型具有足够的拟合统计数据。测量不变性测试表明，驾驶愤怒及其各方面的含义和心理计量性能在国家和职业司机类型之间是等效的。此外，结果表明，驾驶愤怒各方面与表达愤怒的功能失调方式呈正相关，与亲社会愤怒表达的形式呈负相关。此外，结果表明，出租车司机在驾驶和攻击性驾驶方面表现出比卡车和公共汽车司机更高的愤怒和攻击性。总的来说，这项研究复制并扩展了先前研究的积累知识，表明原始 DAS 仍然是一种可靠和稳定的工具，可用于测量日常驾驶条件下的驾驶愤怒。
