PMID- 33801557
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20210413
IS  - 2076-3425 (Print)
IS  - 2076-3425 (Electronic)
IS  - 2076-3425 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 3
DP  - 2021 Mar 2
TI  - The Impact of Two MMPI-2-Based Models of Personality in Predicting Driving 
      Behavior. Can Demographic Variables Be Disregarded?
LID - 10.3390/brainsci11030313 [doi]
LID - 313
AB  - The driver's personality is a key human factor for the assessment of the fitness 
      to drive (FTD), affecting driving decisions and behavior, with consequences on 
      driving safety. No previous study has investigated the effectiveness of Minnesota 
      Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)-2 scales for predicting the FTD. The 
      present study aimed to compare two MMPI-2-based models of normal and pathological 
      personality traits (i.e., Inventory of Driving-related Personality Traits 
      (IVPE)-MMPI vs. Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5) scale) in predicting the 
      cognitive FTD. One hundred young and eighty-seven adult active drivers completed 
      the MMPI-2 questionnaire as a measure of personality and a computerized driving 
      task measuring for resilience of attention (Determination Test (DT)), reaction 
      speed (Reaction Test (RS)), motor speed (MS), and perceptual speed (Adaptive 
      Tachistoscopic Traffic Perception Test (ATAVT)). The effects of age, gender, and 
      education were also controlled. Results showed that the models controlled for 
      demographics overperformed those neglecting them for each driving outcome. A 
      negative effect of age was found on each driving task; the effect of gender, 
      favoring males, was found in both the RS and the MS, and the effect of education 
      was found on the DT and the ATAVT. Concerning personality traits, significant 
      effects were found of sensation seeking (IVPE-MMPI) on each outcome; of anxiety 
      (as a measure of emotional instability; IVPE-MMPI) and introversion (PSY-5) on 
      the measures of MS; and of psychopathic deviation (as a measure of self-control; 
      IVPEMMPI) on the DT. The study confirmed the key role of demographic factors in 
      influencing the FTD, further suggesting the usefulness of some MMPI2-based 
      personality scales in the assessment of driving-related personality determinants.
FAU - Tinella, Luigi
AU  - Tinella L
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4296-5233
AD  - Department of Educational Sciences, Psychology, Communication, University of 
      Bari, 70121 Bari, Italy.
FAU - Caffo, Alessandro Oronzo
AU  - Caffo AO
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3973-8152
AD  - Department of Educational Sciences, Psychology, Communication, University of 
      Bari, 70121 Bari, Italy.
FAU - Lopez, Antonella
AU  - Lopez A
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3717-1677
AD  - Department of Educational Sciences, Psychology, Communication, University of 
      Bari, 70121 Bari, Italy.
FAU - Grattagliano, Ignazio
AU  - Grattagliano I
AD  - Department of Educational Sciences, Psychology, Communication, University of 
      Bari, 70121 Bari, Italy.
FAU - Bosco, Andrea
AU  - Bosco A
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9458-3993
AD  - Department of Educational Sciences, Psychology, Communication, University of 
      Bari, 70121 Bari, Italy.
LA  - eng
GR  - B34I19000180002/Regione Puglia/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210302
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Brain Sci
JT  - Brain sciences
JID - 101598646
PMC - PMC8000114
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - MMPI-2
OT  - assessment
OT  - cognition
OT  - fitness-to-drive
OT  - personality
OT  - regression models
COIS- The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.
EDAT- 2021/04/04 06:00
MHDA- 2021/04/04 06:01
PMCR- 2021/03/02
CRDT- 2021/04/03 01:08
PHST- 2021/01/27 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/02/23 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/02/26 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/04/03 01:08 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/04/04 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/04/04 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/03/02 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - brainsci11030313 [pii]
AID - brainsci-11-00313 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/brainsci11030313 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Brain Sci. 2021 Mar 2;11(3):313. doi: 10.3390/brainsci11030313.