Bus passengers’anger scale and expression in anger-provoking situations

作     者：Zhili Yuan Qun Chen Shi Ye 

作者机构：School of Traffic and Transportation EngineeringCentral South UniversityChangsha 410075HunanChina. 

出 版 物：《Transportation Safety and Environment》 (交通安全与环境（英文）)

年 卷 期：2023年第5卷第1期

页      面：18-30页

核心收录：

学科分类：0402[教育学-心理学(可授教育学、理学学位）] 0303[法学-社会学] 0710[理学-生物学] 08[工学] 082302[工学-交通信息工程及控制] 0823[工学-交通运输工程] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：the National Social Science Fund of China(Grant No.21BGL296). 

主　　题：anger bus passengers expression bus passengers’anger and expression inventory(BPASX) 

摘      要：This paper investigates the scale and expression of passengers’anger arising from disputes between drivers and passengers,and between passengers,by surveying a sample of 757 undergraduate students.The bus passengers’anger scale and expression inventory(BPASX),a newly-designed questionnaire battery,is used to analyse the anger levels and resulting behaviour expression of passengers in 6-item anger-provoking situations.The analysis shows that a positive correlation exists between the frequency or duration of bus rides and anger levels/external anger expression,while self-adaptive expression is only correlated with frequency.Gender differs only in the violent external expression,where males display a greater preference.Meanwhile,the correlations of anger levels between anger-provoking situations are significantly positive.Moreover,anger expression patterns gradually shift from self-adaptation to external expression as anger levels grow in general,but the variation rules of expression frequency are different.Overall,this study provides a newly effective tool to explore characteristics of the anger expression of bus passengers in different anger-provoking scenarios and demonstrates its variation features when anger levels change.