The main objective of this article is to answer the following questions: 1) Are there significant differences in personality dimensions between the infringing drivers and the general population? 2) Is the profile of the offending driver (consumption of alcohol or other drugs, speed, distraction, breach of rules and signals) related to his personality dimension? and 3) In the sample of offended drivers, are there differences in risk profiles in driving between men and women? The second objective, in the case of finding an affirmative answer to the questions posed, is to propose a review of the training programs that are currently used in awareness and road re-education courses for delinquent drivers in Catalonia.
The data of this investigation have been obtained from a sample of drivers who, as a result of the commission of infractions or crimes against traffic safety, have attended, as students, awareness and road reeducation courses in centers located in different towns of Catalonia. To measure the personality dimensions, the EPQ-RA instrument, which is a reduced version of the original personality questionnaire of Eysenck (1994), has been used.
Character strengths have been found to be predictive of high levels of life satisfaction. The present study attempts to examine the relationship between these constructs but at a fine-grained level. To that end, we used the heart versus mind classification of character strengths (Peterson, 2006), scarcely examined in prior research, to test whether affective-component traits (heart strengths) are more linked to life satisfaction than cognitive-component traits (mind strengths). A sample of 419 undergraduate students completed the measures of character strengths and life satisfaction. Statistical analysis showed that affective-component traits were more predictive of life satisfaction than cognitive-component traits. These findings emphasize the need to devise strength-based interventions aimed at improving life satisfaction, specifically addressing heart character strengths. Implications of these findings for future research are discussed.
This paper does not intend to carry out a systematic or complete review of the literature, but rather aims to offer a critical view by the authors about the functional brain organization during reading in bilinguals. Firstly, a critical analysis of different theoretical proposals about the reading process is presented, with particular emphasis on the Dual-Route Cascade Model for being the most influential theory in the field. Then, we analize the main theoretical proposals about the neurobiological substrate based mainly on functional neuroimage studies. The main factors that influence this neural correlate during reading in bilinguals are extracted and the findings regarding them of the most recent studies are presented. Finally, a critical analysis is made about the main limitations of the research on this topic and challenges and future research lines in the field are discussed.