Personality Traits of Narcissism and Impulsiveness: The Risky Drive

Risky driving behaviors has been an overly common occurrence as the highways and roadways become more congested with automobiles. These behaviors and consequences associated tend to have a natural concern within the media, public and academic realms of the world. The present study was designed to expand the previous research in the prediction of risky driving behaviors. This study examined the correlation between traits of impulsiveness and/or narcissism with risky driving behaviors. It was hypothesized that there would be a correlation between impulsiveness and risky driving as well as narcissism and risky driving. It was predicted that both correlations would be positive, meaning as one variable increases the other variable increases. The sample consisted of 70 participants (60 females, 10 males) that completed a series of online questionnaires. Data was analysis by SPSS data 23 Software and results supported both hypothesizes.