Aggressive driviing study correlation
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This document discusses a study that aimed to reduce aggressive driving and road rage through the Mozart effect. The study tested drivers under various conditions like driving in silence, with music, or with passengers, and measured their physiological arousal. It found that certain types of classical music may decrease stress levels and the likelihood of aggressive behaviors like tailgating or road rage. The study also examined the effects of mental imagery and conversations that drivers have with themselves or aloud when frustrated in traffic. It measured heart rate variability and found associations between accelerated heart rates and behaviors like speeding or braking harshly.
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Aggressive driviing study correlation
- 1. Combating Aggressive Driving and ROAD RAGE THROUGH THE MOZART EFFECT Dr. James Honeycutt Distinguished Professor Note: We would like to thank the assistance of the Louisiana State Police Training Academy in Zachary, LA for their assistance with this project
- 2. Statement of Needs and Objectives Purpose: To promote safe driving and decrease incidences of aggressive driving and road rage due to heavy traffic congestion Metropolitan areas in Louisiana have heavy traffic congestion. As a result people get frustrated due to time delays, wrecks impairing traffic flow. Aggressive driving includes a range of behaviors that includes speeding, tailgating, weaving and running red lights, or any combination of these activities. Road rage occurs when the car is used as a weapon to hurt others along with increased threat of bodily injury once drivers have stopped their vehicles. The Problem Now: Research has shown that aggressive driving incidents have increased by 7 percent every year since 1990. Over, 1,500 men and women are injured or killed each year as a result of aggressive driving. Psychologists have suggested that certain drivers are more susceptible to losing their tempers behind the wheel than others. There are many lifestyle factors and/or stressors that could be associated with drivers previously identified as safe or unsafe drivers. Factors associated with road rage are drug/alcohol problems and histories of violence. Hence, we will have a baseline measure of the overall level of daily anger in drivers lives that will be factored in when road rage is displayed in our experiment.
- 3. Preliminary, data was collected in the spring of 2006 at the Louisiana State Police Driving Headquarters and lasted for 2 years.
- 4. Music Therapy in the Car According to research, certain types of music can reduce the levels of stress, depression or anxiety. It is hypothesized that if driver education instructors disseminated information about the Mozart effect to new drivers, their level of stress and anxiety would decrease and they will be less likely to vent their anger at other drivers on the road. We had a baseline measure of the overall level of anger in the motorists daily lives. Also, we will use biomedical feedback monitors to measure the physiological arousal of drivers in the following conditions: 1. Driving in silence 2. Driving while listening to talk radio 3. Driving while listening to other types of music that the driver selects including I- Tunes 4. Driving in solitutude 5. Driving with companions who may enhance or detract from aggressive driving 6. Environemntal conditions
- 5. Mental Imagery in the Car Additionally, we investigated the use of imaginary interactions (IIs) with a potential offending driver. Some people have IIs as they are venting at offending drivers in heavy traffic conjestion when they are late for an important meeting with business clients.
- 6. The driving conditions were tested under instances of moderately, heavy driving conditions in which the driver is boxed in by an 18-wheeler and the driver in front of them is talking on a cell phone.
- 7. The driver has been instructed that they are late for an important, business meeting or they are out for a Sunday, leisure drive. Personality measures reflecting different types of driving behavior have been gathered.
- 9. Interbeat interval (IBI) also known as heart- rate variability, is a measure of anxiety and arousal . Heart-rate is negatively correlated with being an impatient driver and having imagined interactions with the offending driver. Increased heart rate is negatively associated with rage at the offending driver.
- 10. Heart-rate variability is negatively associated with riding the brake, but positively associated with increased speed and tailgating. Hence, while accelerating, persons actually feel calmer in heavy traffic conditions. Unfortunately, this gives drivers time to ruminate and mull over old arguments and conflicts.
- 11. Being a punishing driver is associated with venting in terms of IIs, raging, and talking out loud, such that the car is used as a weapon