PERSONALITY AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE AS PREDICTORS OF ROAD TRAFFIC OFFENCES AMONGST COMMERCIAL DRIVERS IN JOS METROPOLIS
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This study examined the influence of personality and substance abuse on road traffic offences
amongst commercial drivers in Jos metropolis. One hundred and sixty three male
commercial drivers with a mean age of 31.7 years (SD 2.6 years) participated in the study.
The Big Five Personality Inventory (Oliver, 1991), the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance
Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) (Humeniuk et al., 2010) and the Risky Attitude and
Traffic Violation Scale (RATVS) (Celik, 2006) were used to generate data in order to test
six hypotheses. The test results revealed that there was no significant relationship between
openness personality trait and traffic offences (t = 0.055, p = 0.956); there was a significant
relationship between conscientiousness personality trait and traffic offences (t = 2.475, p =
0.014); there is a significant relationship between extroversion personality trait and traffic
offences (t = – 2.454, p = 0.015); there was no significant relationship between agreeableness
personality trait and traffic offences (t = 0.430, p = 0.668); there was a significant
relationship between neuroticism personality trait and traffic offences (t = 2.383, p = 0.018);
and there was no significant relationship between substance abuse and traffic offences (t =
0.110, p = 0.912). Recommendations were made based on these findings.