Psychological efficiency is extremely important from the point of view of a driver’s safe functioning in road traffic. Knowing one’s strengths and weaknesses allows for an adequate self-assessment, thanks to which the driver can predict their reactions in various difficult situations and “tune” their participation in road traffic according to their own psychological condition.
This also provides an opportunity to avoid posing a threat to oneself and others through one’s behavior. Many psychologists believe that personality influences driving safety to a much greater extent than other factors. Among personality traits, they emphasize the importance of temperament type in particular, which influences the reduction or increase of road hazards to a greater extent than the driver’s motor and cognitive efficiency. The purpose of this article is to draw attention to the essence of the functioning of people with different types of temperament and to examine them from the point of view of a driver’s functioning. (…)
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Source: Czasopismo Logistyka