Attitudes,norms and driving behaviour: A comparison of young drivers in South Africa and Sweden |
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| Institution: | 1. Instituto de Psicología Básica, Aplicada y Tecnología (IPSIBAT), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMDP), Funes 3250, Mar del Plata, Argentina;2. Faculty of Psychology – Research Institute on Traffic and Road Safety (INTRAS), Universitat de València, Carrer del Serpis 29, Valencia 46022, Spain;3. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Pico de Orizaba No.1 Col Los Volcanes, Cuernavaca, Mexico;4. Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety-Queensland (CARRS-Q), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), 130 Victoria Park Rd, Kelvin Grove, QLD 4059, Australia;5. Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, 60 Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove, QLD 4059, Australia;6. Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad del Norte, Km. 5 Antigua Via Puerto Colombia, Barranquilla, Colombia;1. Facultad de Psicología, CIMCYC, Mind, Brain & Behaviour Research Centre, Universidad de Granada. Campus Cartuja, s/n 18071, Granada. Spain;2. The Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel;1. Eindhoven University of Technology, Information Systems in the Built Environment Group, the Netherlands;2. Delft University of Technology, Department of Transport and Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, the Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Culture is increasingly recognised among traffic psychologists to be a factor influencing driving behaviour. This study examines whether a cultural background characterised by rapid social change and high levels of violence and aggression, as in the South African context, has any discernible influences on driving standards or the behaviour of individual drivers. The experiences and attitudes of young drivers in South Africa are compared with a group of young drivers from Sweden, a country whose society has exhibited high levels of stability and where road user behaviour is renowned for its restraint and compliance with regulations.The two cohorts provide information about their exposure to traffic injuries, their attitudes to other drivers and to a range of traffic offences, and to the types of behaviour they personally engage in. Among the South African respondents the notion of a declining standard of driving emerges very clearly, and specific new norms of driving are identified. Such norms are explained to be a consequence of new social values or challenges inherent within contemporary South African society. |
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| Keywords: | Driver attitude Social norms Driving standards Self-reported traffic violations Young drivers |
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