Affiliation:
1. School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Central South University , Changsha 410075, Hunan, China
Abstract
Abstract
This paper investigates the scale and expression of passengers’ anger arising from disputes between drivers and passengers, and between passengers, by surveying a sample of 757 undergraduate students. The bus passengers’ anger scale and expression inventory (BPASX), a newly-designed questionnaire battery, is used to analyse the anger levels and resulting behaviour expression of passengers in 6-item anger-provoking situations. The analysis shows that a positive correlation exists between the frequency or duration of bus rides and anger levels/external anger expression, while self-adaptive expression is only correlated with frequency. Gender differs only in the violent external expression, where males display a greater preference. Meanwhile, the correlations of anger levels between anger-provoking situations are significantly positive. Moreover, anger expression patterns gradually shift from self-adaptation to external expression as anger levels grow in general, but the variation rules of expression frequency are different. Overall, this study provides a newly effective tool to explore characteristics of the anger expression of bus passengers in different anger-provoking scenarios and demonstrates its variation features when anger levels change.
Funder
National Social Science Fund of China
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Engineering (miscellaneous),Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality,Control and Systems Engineering
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