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Interamerican Journal of Psychology

versão impressa ISSN 0034-9690

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PANICHI, Renata Maria Dotta  e  WAGNER, Adriana. Risky driver behavior: a literature review of factors that predict risky driving among young people. Interam. j. psychol. [online]. 2006, vol.40, n.2, pp.159-166. ISSN 0034-9690.

The objective of this article is to discuss risky driving behavior and the tendency to get involved in traffic accidents among young drivers taking a psychosocial and multifactor approaching to the phenomenon. It describes, from a historical perspective, the explanatory models of traffic accidents and the risky driving behavior. It also systemizes and discriminates the results of empirical studies that point risk and protection factors for these behaviors. This work aims to bring about considerations on this issue, in order to subsidize debates about the undertaking of efficient preventive measures to reduce the number of young victims in traffic accidents.

Palavras-chave : Motor traffic accidents; Risk behavior; Driving behavior; Adolescents.

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