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   Narcissistic symptoms among Iranian outer-city bus drivers  
   
نویسنده tabrizia leila ,karbalaee ahmad ,pashang sara
منبع journal of injury and violence research - 2020 - دوره : 12 - شماره : 3 - صفحه:25 -30
چکیده    Background: although very few studies have investigated the association of narcissistic symptomsand aggressive driving, very little is known about association of narcissism and serious trafficoutcomes such as crash and serious violation of traffic laws. the aim of this study was to determinewhether there is an association between the narcissistic symptoms of professional bus driversand high risk driving records or crash.methods: a total of 200 outer-city bus drivers were enrolled in 2018 from tehran origin of trips.the narcissistic symptoms of drivers were assessed using the narcissistic personality inventory-16(npi-16). the traffic police databases were searched for records of crashes or recordednegative traffic scores during a 3-year period prior to time of interviews. data were analyzedusing stata 14 statistical software package.results: mean age of the participants was 44.4 years with a standard deviation of 9.3 years.fourteen drivers (7%) had a crash history over the past three years. mean normalized narcissismscore was 22.3 among those without a crash history over the past three years versus 18.8 amongthose with a crash history without statistical significance. forty-four drivers (22%) had a negativetraffic scoring record due to high risk traffic violations registered in police database over thepast three years. mean normalized narcissism score was 22 among those without negative scorerecord over the past three years versus 22.3 among those with a negative score history.however, the difference was not found to be statistically significant.conclusion: the findings of present study does not support an association between crash risk orbeing a recorded high risk driver and narcissism levels. however, considering the complex riskprofile of road traffic crashes, much larger studies are needed to rule it out.
کلیدواژه Personality ,Psychology ,Narcissism ,Road trafficinjuries ,High risk drivers
آدرس islamic azad university, karaj branch, faculty of psychology, department of psychology, Iran, islamic azad university, karaj branch, faculty of psychology, department of psychology, iran, islamic azad university, karaj branch, faculty of psychology, department of psychology, iran
 
     
   
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