Intent to harm through road rage

• Main Authors: Maducdoc, Kyle Patrick, Maldia, John Ronn
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2017
• Subjects: Road rage > Philippines; Aggressive driving > Philippines; Motor vehicle driving > Philippines
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/9977
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study examined the beliefs underlying people's decision-making from a theory of planned behavior (TPB) framework, in the prediction of the intention to harm on others when a driver is provoked by another driver. Respondents from Metro Manila (N 104) completed a questionnaire assessing the beliefs based theory of planned behavior measures of attitudinal belief, normative beliefs, and control beliefs in relation to engaging in the intention to harm or retaliation. With the confidence level set at p.05, the significance level or p-value between normative belief and intention to harm is .037. This means that, out of all the belief variables that may affect the intention to harm variable, the normative belief aspect was the strongest predictor in this case. Although the whole study garnered significant results, the categories of questions used in the survey were not very reliable according to the Chronbach's alpha value. In conclusion, the study conveys that most of the time, people get angry when they are provoked And the intention to harm becomes inherent. However, the influence of what other people think about road rage and harming may impede their decision whether to act aggressively and retaliate.