Psych 409a: November 06, 2006

Road Rage Intervention

By:  Kirk Ishida

 

Instructions for this activity are found at:

http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy25/g25-oral1.htm

Instructor: Dr. Leon James

Galovski, T. E. & Blanchard, E. B. (2004). Road rage: A domain for psychological intervention? Aggression and Violent Behavior: A Review Journal, Vol. 9, pp. 105-127.

 

I.                    Aggressive Driving Impact

a.       Aggressive and violence becoming more main stream in the U.S.

b.      Aggressive driving has been said to be just as bad as alcohol-impaired driving

 

II.                 Defining Aggressive Driving

a.       Human factors make up about 90% of motor vehicle accidents

b.      Three driving behaviors of aggressive driving

                                                               i.      Lapses

1.      Shifting wrong

2.      Putting blinker on the wrong way but meaning to go the other

                                                             ii.      Errors

1.      Not seeing a sign

2.      Not judging distances well

                                                            iii.      Violations

1.      Going through a red

2.      Tailgating

c.       Aggressive driving is

                                                               i.      Tailgating

                                                             ii.      Driving slowly to prevent others from going

                                                            iii.      Horn honking

                                                           iv.      Yelling

                                                             v.      Throwing things

                                                           vi.      Etc.

 

III.               Variables

a.       Perception of social class

                                                               i.      84% of drivers honked at the perceived low class car

                                                             ii.      50% for high class

b.      Gender

                                                               i.      53% of drivers honked at a male driver

                                                             ii.      71% at a female driver

c.       Ethnicity

d.      Age

e.       Perception of aggression

 

IV.              Driver Stress and environment

a.          Embeddedness

                                                               i.      That anger is influenced by many other things that is related to the current problem

b.      Interrelatedness

                                                               i.      Anger is connected to past experiences and occurrences

c.       Transformationality

                                                               i.      Anger level can be transformed to more or less due to variables

 

V.                 Treatment of Aggressive driving

a.       One day intensive treatment program

                                                               i.      Changing drivers belief system on road ways

b.      Pure relaxation treatment

                                                               i.      Training for muscle relaxation

                                                             ii.      Four relaxation training skills

c.       Relaxation treatment with cognitive therapy

                                                               i.      Along with the regular treatment they used cognitive therapy

1.      challenged faulty assumptions and thoughts and changed them

 

Links:

 

http://safety.transportation.org/htmlguides/AggDrvr/exec_sum.htm I choose this site because it talked about treatments of aggressive driving which I mentioned in my outline.  Also it talked about that we need to find solution to the causes of aggressive driving as well as the solution of the symptom.

 

http://www.drdriving.org/articles/testimony.htm I choose this site because it talked about the symptoms of road rage first.  It then mentioned ways to treat aggressive driving such as Quality Driving Circles, a new driver’s ED, and CARR children against road rage.

http://pdftohtml.spiritofanime.com/pdf2html.php?url=http://tva.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/7/2/109.pdf This site gave more information on treating road rage such as having laws that if you break them you will be punished.  Having a screening tool for new drivers such as a test to identify potential road ragers.  Having courts refer road ragers to a treatment program that is affective.  There are many more but these are just a few that this article mentioned

My Homepage: http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leon/409af2006/ishida/ishida-home.htm

Class Homepage: http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy25/classhome-g25.htm