Aggressive driving behavior: A case study of Mehran UET, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan

This research is socio-emotional study of individuals with different gender, age, driving experience and academic status. By the help of this research, driving behavior of individuals is studied which can be helpful for traffic police to overcome violations on roads due to aggressive driving. This study was conducted to reveal aggressive driving behavior of students and teachers at MUET, Jamshoro, Pakistan. Questionnaire of Dr. Larson was used as research instrument. 200 questionnaires were distributed among respondents; 160 samples were collected and 16 were rejected. 16 hypothesis were developed in this study. Data was analyzed in (SPSS) version 22. Reliability of the questionnaire was checked by cronbach alpha test (alpha=0.875). Firstly, descriptive statistics for all questions was calculated; after the normality test, independent sample T-test and ANOVA tests were used for hypothesis testing. Furthermore, relationship among driving, anger, driving impatience, competing and punishing were found by the help of Pearson correlation. It was concluded that there was no significant difference in driving anger, driving impatience, competing and punishing of drivers belonging to different demographics i.e. gender, age, driving experience, students and teachers. Furthermore, significant positive association was found among the driving anger, driving impatience, competing and punishing of drivers.