ABSTRACT
Road traffic accidents in Nigeria have been on the increase in recent years despite the various
programme designed to reduce the carnage on Nigerian roads. Various factors have been
implicated in accident aetiology and these include personal predilection to risky driving
behaviour, accident proneness and alcohol use. Personality traits of extraversion and
neuroticism have been implicated in accident proneness based on several studies carried out in
developing countries. Therefore, this study examined the influence of personality types and
alcohol use on risky driving behaviour and accident proneness among injured drivers treated in
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital (LAUTECH), Osogbo, Osun
State.
A cross-sectional survey research design was used for the study. One hundred and twenty
participants were selected from LAUTECH Orthopaedic, Accident and Emergency
Physiotherapy Unit and outpatients‘ clinic using consecutive recruitment. A questionnaire
consisting of five (5) sections made up of standardized instruments was used in collecting data
for the study. Informed consent and permission were obtained from both the participants and
the hospital administrations before administering questionnaire on the respondents. Five (5)
hypotheses were tested using t-tests and multiple regression analysis at P< 0.05 significant
level.
Results indicated that female participants were more prone to accident than their male
counterparts {t (118) = 4.03; P
JACOB, A (2021). Influence Of Personality And Alcohol-Use On Risky Driving Behaviour And Accident Proneness Among Injured Drivers Treated In A Teaching Hospital In Oshogbo, Nigeria. Afribary. Retrieved from https://afribary.com/works/influence-of-personality-and-alcohol-use-on-risky-driving-behaviour-and-accident-proneness-among-injured-drivers-treated-in-a-teaching-hospital-in-oshogbo-nigeria
JACOB, AKINNIYI "Influence Of Personality And Alcohol-Use On Risky Driving Behaviour And Accident Proneness Among Injured Drivers Treated In A Teaching Hospital In Oshogbo, Nigeria" Afribary. Afribary, 21 Apr. 2021, https://afribary.com/works/influence-of-personality-and-alcohol-use-on-risky-driving-behaviour-and-accident-proneness-among-injured-drivers-treated-in-a-teaching-hospital-in-oshogbo-nigeria. Accessed 19 May. 2024.
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JACOB, AKINNIYI . "Influence Of Personality And Alcohol-Use On Risky Driving Behaviour And Accident Proneness Among Injured Drivers Treated In A Teaching Hospital In Oshogbo, Nigeria" Afribary (2021). Accessed May 19, 2024. https://afribary.com/works/influence-of-personality-and-alcohol-use-on-risky-driving-behaviour-and-accident-proneness-among-injured-drivers-treated-in-a-teaching-hospital-in-oshogbo-nigeria