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The Star, Monday 15 July 2013
Study: Women Drivers are angrier Than Men
Reports by: Yuen Meikeng, Joseph Kaos Jr and Jane Tan
A five-year study undertaken by the Malaysian Institute of
Road Safety Research (MIROS) had revealed that Malaysian women drivers have
been found to be angrier than men behind the wheel. However, despite that, women drivers suffered
fewer crashes and road fatalities. The
survey was to identify the numbers of agitated drivers’ categories by anger
drivers, medium-anger drivers and low-anger drivers.
The study was conducted between 2009 and 2012, measured the
anger levels of 5,248 drivers (accept motorcycles) in more than 103 districts
throughout the country. The survey was
meant to:
- Help Malaysians drivers be more aware about the dangers of driving in an angry state and why they should always keep their cool while on the road
- As an aid to traffic police so that they could conduct more efficient enforcement in the states with large numbers of high-anger drivers.
The drivers in the survey were asked to rate how angry they
felt on a scale of 1 – 5 on matters ranging from illegal driving to hostile
gestures.
Angry drivers are more likely to lose control of their
vehicles, suffer loss of concentration and display verbal, physical or
vehicular aggression on the road. The
main causes of fury were found to be:
·
Discourtesy
o
Cutting cues
o
Refusing to give way
o
Failing to use indicators before turning of changing lanes
o
Triple parking on roadsides
·
Traffic obstruction
o
Construction or repair works
·
Rude or hostile gesture
·
Driving too slowly
·
Getting stopped by the police
Driving anger
by gender
(ratio 1 –
10)
|
No.
|
What gets them mad
|
Male
|
Female
|
|
1
|
Hostile gestures
|
6.22
|
6.62
|
|
2
|
Illegal driving
|
7.05
|
6.87
|
|
3
|
Police presence
|
4.26
|
4.34
|
|
4
|
Slow driving
|
6.11
|
6.17
|
|
5
|
Discourteous driving
|
9.95
|
10.04
|
|
6
|
Traffic obstruction
|
9.16
|
9.29
|
|
Total
|
42.75
|
43.33
|
|
Malaysians are normally polite people, but when it comes to
driving, they seem to get easily agitated.
This is because most of them are usually rushing for time, so people they
tend to get frustrated when the road is congested. There are more angrier drivers here compared
to other places mainly due to the fast pace of life and traffic congestion in
the city.
According to Consultant Psychiatrist Prof. Dr. Mohamad
Hussain Habil, anger is like a curtain to your rational mind. Anger disorders affect people who unable to
cope properly when they lose their cool.
They tend to be oversensitive. According
to Consultant Psychiatrist Dr. Ting Joe Hang, the anger arises because of the
many roles where sometimes people have difficulty juggling everything which
will cause them to experience more stress.
There is the opinion where Malaysian drivers have two things
on their mind when it comes to driving:
- It is always me first
- Accidents won’t happen to me
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