Abstract

SILVA, Fábio Henrique Vieira de Cristo e  and  ALCHIERI, João Carlos. Psychological assessment of the personality of drivers: a review of literature. PsicoUSF [online]. 2007, vol.12, n.2, pp. 189-196. ISSN 1413-8271.

Every year millions of Brazilians are psychologically assessed in order to drive vehicles, according to the current legislation. The object of this work was review the Brazilian empirical studies on the psychological assessment of the personality characteristics used in the evaluation processes of drivers. The publications on this subject in the country were identified, as well as their main themes and methods used; and their procedures and results obtained were listed. It is concluded that the researches on the personality of drivers are scarce and restricted in their results, based on generalizations and without offering conclusive results which justify the need to evaluate this psychological construct in order to drive vehicles.

Keywords : Personality of drivers; Psychological evaluation of drivers; Drivers; Review of literature; Traffic psychology.

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