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The Relationship among bus Driver's Personality Traits, Safety Job Performance and Traffic Accidents

버스 운전자들의 성격 특성과 안전 직무수행 및 교통사고와의 관계

  • Ahn, Woohyun (Department of Psychology, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Lee, Sunhee (Department of Psychology, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Park, Sunyoung (Korea Transportation Safety Authority)
  • Received : 2014.02.05
  • Accepted : 2014.04.10
  • Published : 2014.04.30
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Abstract

The study examined the relationship between six broad personality traits(i.e., HEXACO; Honesty-humility, Emotionality, eXtraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness to experience), safety job performance, and traffic accidents of Korean occupational bus drivers. Based on the job performance model, we included safety participation as well as safety compliance as safety job performance. Analyses on the data from a total of 492 bus drivers showed that all HEXACO personality traits except Honesty-humility, were valid predictors for both safety compliance and safety participation. Honesty-humility was only related to safety compliance. Among the six personality traits, high conscientiousness and low emotionality were best predictors of safety job performance. As for traffic accidents, conscientiousness was a sole significant predictor. Furthermore, the mediation analysis showed that the effect of conscientiousness on traffic accidents was completely explained by safety compliance and safety participation. The implications of the current findings for practice and future research as well as the limitations of the current study were discussed.

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