Correlation of self-control with aggressive behavior of adolescent motorcyclists

• Setia Budi, Ilham Nur Alfian Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Airlangga

Abstract

Most of road accidents are caused by aggressive behavior of motorcyclists, especially adolescents. An understanding of self-control is needed to reduce the risk of accidents. This study aimed to determine a relationship between self-control and aggressive behavior of motorcyclists in adolescents. The results of the correlation test between two variables indicated that the significance of the variable self-control driving with driver aggressiveness was 0.000. The correlation coefficient obtained was negative which showed the direction of the opposite relationship so that when self-control of motorbike driving was high then aggressive behavior was also high.