Citation

Zheng T, Qu W, Ge Y, Sun X, Zhang K. PLoS One 2017; 12(11): e0188153.

Affiliation

CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Public Library of Science)

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0188153

PMID

29190750

Abstract

While improper pedestrian behavior has become an important factor related to road traffic fatalities, especially in developing countries, the effects of personality traits and/or stress on pedestrian behavior have been rarely reported. The current study explored the joint effects of five personality traits (i.e., extraversion, openness, neuroticism, normlessness and altruism) and global perceived stress (measured with the Perceived Stress Scale-10) on pedestrian behavior (measured with the Pedestrian Behavior Scale) in 311 Chinese individuals.

RESULTS showed that altruism, neuroticism and openness significantly affected different pedestrian behavior dimensions, while global perceived stress also significantly and positively predicted positive behavior. Moreover, the effect of neuroticism on positive behavior was fully mediated by stress. Some explanations and implications are provided in the discussion section.

Language: en