%0 Journal Article %T Escala de dificultades percibidas para la conducci¨®n, hostilidad y extraversi¨®n: un an¨¢lisis correlacional en conductores de Bogot¨¢ %A Ruiz %A Jos¨¦ Ignacio %A L¨®pez %A Laura Catalina %J Diversitas: Perspectivas en Psicolog¨ªa %D 2010 %I Universidad Santo Tom¨¢s %X in colombia, there are very few works about associated factors to road-traffic accidentally. the aim of this research was both to explore psychometric properties of a perceived difficulties to conduction scale (dcs) in bogot¨¢, in relation to several transit norms, and to study relationships between dcs with hostility, anger, extrovertion measures and bad practices of conduction: accidents and penalties. a non-randomized sample of bus, taxis and private cars conductors answered a questionnaire with this variables. results showed a high internal reliability of dcs, a unique factor structure and relationships between higher edc scores and higher hostility, anger, accidents and penalties. extrovertion has an indirect influence in dcs. %K perceived driving difficulties %K personality %K hostility %K accidents. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1794-99982010000200017&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en