Regional Differences of Aggressive Driving Behaviors in China

With driving environment becoming more and more crowded,aggressive driving happens more frequently.Studies aboard have systematic analyzed aggressive driving behaviors;however few have been done in China.A survey is applied in this study and the samples are selected from drivers across China.Factor analysis is then used to extract common factors of the driver anger indicators scales (DAIS) of 761 drivers from three districts:North China,East China,and South Central China.The correlation among common factors and age,gender,years of driving,region,and accidents involved in the past three years have also been analyzed.In addition,according to scores of common factors and results of variance analysis,differences among regional DAIS are analyzed.The results indicate that drivers from South Central China have the highest frequency of aggressive driving behaviors,followed by North China,and the lowest are from East China.Aggressive driving behaviors have a strong correlation with accidents.Another finding of this study is that in every district,drivers always claim that they having been subjected to aggressive driving behaviors more than they committed.