... Different psychological characteristics have been studied as correlates of risky driving in novice drivers. Personality traits, especially such as sensation seeking, impulsivity, and aggressiveness (Berdoulat, Vavassori, & Sastre, 2013;Ge, Qu, Jiang, Du, Sun, & Zhang, 2014;Harris et al., 2014;Poó & Ledesma, 2013;Yang, Du, Qu, Gong, & Sun, 2013), positive attitudes towards risky driving (Cacciabue, 2007;Isler, Starkey, & Sheppard, 2008;Ram & Chand, 2015), low resistance to peer influence (Møller & Haustein, 2014;Shope, 2006;Shope, Raghunathan, & Patil, 2003), or poor ability to deal with own emotions (Berdoulat et al., 2013;Trógolo, Melchior, & Medrano, 2014) were found to be important contributors to the increased risk of traffic rules violations or accidents in this group of drivers. However, most authors confirmed the first 6 or 12 months of independent driving to be a crucial period for road accident involvement and traffic rules violations because of insufficient driving experience and overestimation of own driving skills (Baughan, Sexton, Simpson, Chinn, & Quimby, 2006;Borowsky & Shinar, & Oron-Gilad, 2010;Boufous, Ivers, Senserrick, & Stevenson, 2011;de Winter, 2013;Redshaw, 2005;Scott-Parker et al., 2014). ...