The role of excitement seeking and impulsivity in high-riskdriving behaviors among intercity drivers

Risky behaviors are potentially destructive behaviors that people do,voluntarily or unaware of the possible undesirable consequences. This conceptis influenced by many social and personality factors. This concept is itselfinfluenced by many social and personality factors and this article attempts toinvestigate the role of excitment seeking and impulsivity in high risk drivingbehaviors of intercity drivers of Tabriz-Ahar road .The research method was descriptive in type of correlation. The statisticalpopulation of the study was all drivers of Tabriz-Ahar Road with at least twoyears of driving experience in 2018. From 130 drivers, a sample of 100 peoplewas selected as available. The tool for measuring the research were GeneralHealth Questionnaire (GHQ), Zuckerman Excitement seeking Questionnaire(SSS), Barratt Impact Assessment Questionnaire, and Manchester DrivingBehavior Questionnaire. The results showed that there is a significantrelationship between emotion seeking and high risk driving behaviors andthere was also a significant relationship between impulsive components andhigh risk driving behaviors in Tabriz-Ahar road.So, we conclude that the excitement seeking and impulsivity variables are ableto predict the risky driving behaviors of the Tabriz-Ahar road. Given thataccording to the findings of the present study, excitement seeking andimpulsivity are components related to the tendency of high risk drivingbehaviors, it is suggested that informig in field of exciteme seeking,impulsivity and their effects should be considered as one of the effectivefactors in high risk driving behavior training program.