The traffic psychology is that particular field of applied psychology that focuses on the participants of the traffic crossing many fields of study than the perception up to the personality.
But who is "traffic psychologist" and he does not do?
certainly in the Italian is a emerging figure, which, unfortunately, still have not gotten a proper response.
The Istat survey found in Italy, 218,963 in the year 2008 well in 4364 fatal accidents. Are alarming figures that lead to reflection. What determines and influences driving safety?
The theme of "driving safety" in the Italian is still not sufficiently addressed in the psychological perspective, but most of the times in key legislation, and then with a light punishment. It becomes necessary to approach this issue in a more purely psychological perspective to understand what are the factors that influence the behavior of the driver and what drives him to implement dangerous behavior.
would be useful to investigate how factors such as: fatigue, alcohol use and / or psychotropic substances, but also personality traits and influences, skills and social factors, can interfere with safe driving. What brings drivers to lose control physically, cognitively and emotionally?
The psychology of traffic, primarily in response to a question arises as objective to deal with road safety by combating the phenomenon of road deaths and trying to prevent accidents through a "road education" that is not solely and exclusively educational and punitive, but instead trying to raise awareness on the value of safety and how it may take many variables, first of all the so-called "Sensation Seeking."
The Sensation Seeking ricondubile is to risk seeking. Take the risk or the risk of taking action, means to move towards an uncertain outcome situations. In the particular context of the psychology of driving and road the concept to assume risks of connecting closely to "voluntarily chosen to take potentially harmful and dangerous behavior." The
was identified by Zuckerman Sensation Seeking as a personality trait defined by the search for intense sensations and experiences and the tendency to take risks for the sheer pleasure of these experiences. It has within it four specific dimensions: thrill and adventure seeking, research experience, disinhibition and susceptibility to boredom.
Numerous studies in the field of psychosocial well-documented that it is possible to find a relationship between high tract of Sensation Seeking and dangerous driving, high impulsivity and usage of drugs and alcohol before getting behind the wheel.
It thus appears that some personality factors appear to be predictive of future risky behaviors when they are driving. What brings the subject to violate the rules of the road, high speed or taking alcohol before riding is attributable to a number of factors: strong impulsivity, aggression, emotional instability, sensation seeking strong and inadequate risk perception.
It is in this context that it becomes necessary to implement a psychological prevention in order to promote safe driving. Dr. Claudia
Distefano
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