Relationship between drivers’ personal characteristicsand personality type and their accident history

The main purpose of this study, conducted in Shahrekord, is to explore the relationship between drivers’ personal characteristics andpersonality type, according to the Big Five personality traits and Myers-Briggs Type test respectively and their accident history. This post-event survey is a casual-comparative one and has been carried out on drivers of Shahrekord (driving as a job). Statistical population includes three 30-member groups. The first group were drivers who have not had accident. The second were those who have had accident once or twice. The third group have had accident more than two times. All of them were randomly chosen among clients of the traffic police, drivers association or were encountered at terminals in the latter half of 2013. Results of multivariate analysis showed that the means of the drivers who have not had accident and those who have had accident once or twice, or those who have had accident more than twice differed radically at Neuroticism and agreeableness scale of the Big Five personality traits. That is to say that the drivers who were more involved in accidents were more neurotic but less agreeable. And Myers-Briggs test they were less judging and more perceptive. There were no radical differences at other scales.