NDLI: “The closer you get …”: age, attitudes and self-serving evaluations about older drivers

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Author	Ferring, Dieter Tournier, Isabelle Mancini, Denis
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	The present study investigates the attitudes of older drivers and road safety measures with a particular focus on self-serving evaluations. Driving capacity is considered here as an indicator of awareness of age-related changes that may lead to a higher risk of self-stereotyping, motivating self-serving evaluations with advancing age. In order to test this notion, we used the perceived distance between one's chronological age and the age assigned to the social categories of “older driver” and “old person” as an indicator of age-group dissociation or identification, respectively. Self-serving evaluations were expected depending on the distance between chronological and subjective age estimates. In addition to this, we tested gender and age effects on the specific evaluations. A sample of 350 participants aged 19–88 completed an online questionnaire on negative and positive stereotypes about older drivers and road safety measures. Results indicated in general a more positive than negative view of older drivers; approval with measures to increase road safety by regulating older drivers was comparatively low. Female participants tended to agree more with negative stereotypes and regulative measures than male participants. Regression analyses revealed as well that increasing chronological age was associated with less agreement with negative stereotypes and measures for road safety. Differences between chronological age and subjective age estimates of when a person is old or an old driver were differentially related with the criteria. The closer the chronological age and subjective age estimates were the lower was the agreement with negative stereotypes and measures to regulate road safety. Findings underline in general that road safety enhancing efforts should avoid highlighting chronological age as the sole driving risk factor to circumvent negative stereotyping with ageing and unjustified driving cessation.
Starting Page	229
Ending Page	238
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	16139372
Journal	European Journal of Ageing
Volume Number	12
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	16139380
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-05-24
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Older drivers Awareness of age-related changes Subjective age Self-serving bias Aging Demography Geriatrics/Gerontology Public Health Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Health (social science) Geriatrics and Gerontology

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