Relating Reactive and Proactive Aggression to Trait Driving Anger in Young and Adult Males: A Pilot Study Using Explicit and Implicit Measures

Driving anger and aggressive driving are main contributors to crashes, especially among young males. Trait is context-specific unique from other forms of anger. It necessary understand the mechanisms trait develop targeted interventions. Although literature conceptually distinguished reactive proactive aggression, this distinction uncommon in research. Similar, cognitive biases related anger, measured by a combination explicit implicit measures, received little attention. This pilot study measures associated with aggression while considering age. The sample consisted 42 male drivers. included self-aggression association (i.e., Single-Target Implicit Association Test) an attentional bias Emotional Stroop Task). Reactive positively Moreover, negatively Finally, interaction effect for age suggested that only drivers, higher lower These preliminary results motivate further attention