Cyclists’ anger experiences in traffic: The Cycling Anger Scale

•Empirical development of the Cycling Anger Scale (CAS).•The CAS is the first measure to assess cycling anger in traffic.•Test of the scale’s structural stability with two different samples.•Examination of the CAS’s convergent validity with DAS and STAXI.•Relations between cycling anger, demographic...

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Published in:Transportation research. Part F, Traffic psychology and behaviour Traffic psychology and behaviour, 2019-04, Vol.62, p.564-574
Main Authors: Oehl, Michael, Brandenburg, Stefan, Huemer, Anja Katharina
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anger
Anger experience
Bicycling
Cycling
Cycling anger
Demographics
Drivers
Driving
Emotions in traffic
Measuring instruments
Police
Principal components analysis
Questionnaires
Traffic accidents & safety
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Summary:•Empirical development of the Cycling Anger Scale (CAS).•The CAS is the first measure to assess cycling anger in traffic.•Test of the scale’s structural stability with two different samples.•Examination of the CAS’s convergent validity with DAS and STAXI.•Relations between cycling anger, demographics, and self-reported cycling behavior. Research on emotions in road traffic has focused on car drivers rather than on cyclists. However, cyclists experience cycling anger and its consequences as vulnerable road users, i.e., without having a car-like protection zone around them. To address the issue of cycling anger, we suggest a psychological measure assessing cyclists’ anger experiences in traffic, the Cycling Anger Scale (CAS). This questionnaire assesses cyclists’ anger experiences in interaction with their cycling environment. A principal component analysis and a following confirmatory factor analyses with two different samples proposed a 14 items questionnaire solution with four subscales: police interaction, car interaction, cyclist interaction, and pedestrian interaction. Alpha reliabilities were acceptable to good. The CAS correlated significantly with the Driving Anger Scale (DAS) for car drivers and with the general State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI) suggesting convergent validity. Additionally, we examined the relations between cycling anger, demographics, and self-reported cycling behavior. We conclude that the CAS provides a complementary efficient instrument for measuring cycling anger in road traffic.
ISSN:1369-8478
1873-5517
DOI:10.1016/j.trf.2019.02.008