1967 年 4 巻 2 号 p. 1-11
Generally, traffic offences are concerned with many factors; they are environmental conditions and disables of cars as well as personality and behavior problems of offenders themselves. Among them, we took up driver’s personality problems in this study.
The Y-G test and social research were performed to 183 male adolescent traffic violators and accident drivers.
The subjects were divided into twelve groups; N (non-licence), S (speed), M (miscellaneous), P (accident to person), B (accident to subject); P-N, P-S, P-M; B-S, B-M, P-B and C (control).
We chose also A (having official records of criminals in addition to traffic problems) and S (no record) groups among them overlappingly.
Using the results of the Y-G test, we prepared the AT1 and AT2 Scales and the Accident Scale for the purpose of discriminating the groups.
There are eight vectors in the AT1 Scale: N, S, M, P, M-P and B for traffic offences; A and S for delinquency (Table4). There are seven vectors in the AT2 Scale: N,S,M,P,M-P,B and C (Table 5).
Both scales discriminated the ex-groups with fairly good level; The vectors of the highest and next scores tended to point out their violations or accidents at 60~80% (Table 7~1 0). The accident scale discriminated the accident drivers at 66.5% (Table 13, 14).
We concluded that the traffic offences had relation to driver’s personality characteristics very much.