{"id":18388,"date":"2016-07-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/?p=18388"},"modified":"2022-11-09T19:10:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:10:07","slug":"should-we-be-aiming-to-engage-drivers-more-with-others-on-road-driving-moral-disengagement-and-self-reported-driving-aggression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/fr\/presentations-and-papers\/2016-carsp-conference-acpser-halifax\/should-we-be-aiming-to-engage-drivers-more-with-others-on-road-driving-moral-disengagement-and-self-reported-driving-aggression\/","title":{"rendered":"(English) Should we be aiming to engage drivers more with others on-road? Driving moral disengagement and self-reported driving aggression"},"content":{"rendered":"Jasmine Cleary, Alexia Lennon, Alison Swann\n

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Abstract:<\/h2>\n

Aggressive driving behaviours may be associated with greater crash risk in situations where drivers engage in riskier types of behaviours such as following too closely. Although trait aggression, trait anger and driving anger have been shown to be associated with self-reported aggressive driving behaviour, it appears that many drivers who do not normally regard themselves as angry or aggressive report engaging in aggressive driving acts. Qualitative studies have reported that drivers explain these behaviours with reference to justified retaliation or beliefs that such acts teach other drivers a lesson or to exercise better driving manners or etiquette, or that they do not have a negative impact on others. Such descriptions of motives bear a strong resemblance to the psychological mechanisms of moral disengagement put forward by Bandura in his attempt to explain how apparently good or moral people commit bad or immoral behaviours. Bandura argues that moral disengagement explains how individuals may detach themselves from their usual self-regulatory processes or morality in order to behave in ways that run counter to their moral standards. Such processes function by permitting the person to maintain perceptions of the self as adhering to a high moral code and avoid self-censure. Bandura goes further to posit that there are three categories of moral disengagement: cognitively misinterpreting the behaviour (e.g euphemistic labelling); disconnecting with the target (e.g. attributing blame to the target); and distorting or denying the impact of the behaviour.<\/p>\n

This study investigated whether moral disengagement can provide an explanation of self-reported driving aggression over and above that provided by constructs normally associated with greater levels of self-reported on-road aggression.
\nA convenience sample of general drivers (n = 294) completed an on-line survey including measures of trait aggression (AQ), driving anger (DAS), moral disengagement (Moral Disengagement Scale), and an adaptation of the Moral Disengagement Scale for the driving context (the Driving Moral Disengagement Scale).<\/p>\n

Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that the independent variables together explained 37% of the variation in self-reported driving aggression (as measured by the Driving Anger Expression scale, DAX). Driving moral disengagement was entered at the final step of the regression and was a significant predictor of driving aggression (p < .001) after accounting for the contribution of age, gender, driving anger, and moral disengagement. Moreover, inspection of the beta weights suggested that driving moral disengagement (beta = .45) was the strongest predictor for this sample, accounting for 20% of the unique variance in driving aggression (sr squared = .20).<\/p>\n

While the measures of moral disengagement and driving moral disengagement were moderately highly and positively correlated, driving moral disengagement appears to capture aspects unique to the driving environment. The pattern of results suggests drivers with higher tendencies to morally disengage in the driving context may respond to others more aggressively on-road.<\/p>\n

Seeking to prevent drivers from activating moral disengagement while driving may be worthy of exploration as a way of reducing non-violent forms of driving aggression.<\/p>\n

<\/div>Auteur(s) : Jasmine Cleary, Alexia Lennon, Alison Swann\n

R\u00e9sum\u00e9:<\/h2>\n

Les comportements de conduite agressive peuvent \u00eatre associ\u00e9s \u00e0 un risque accru d'accident dans des situations o\u00f9 les conducteurs ont des comportements plus risqu\u00e9s tels que suivre de trop pr\u00e8s. Il appara\u00eet \u00e9galement que de nombreux conducteurs qui ne se consid\u00e8rent pas normalement col\u00e9rique ou agressif rapportent se livrer \u00e0 des actes de conduite agressive. Des \u00e9tudes qualitatives ont sugg\u00e9r\u00e9 que les conducteurs expliquent ces comportements en faisant r\u00e9f\u00e9rence \u00e0 des repr\u00e9sailles ou croyances justifi\u00e9 que ces actes inculqueront aux autres conducteurs une \u00ab le\u00e7on \u00bb ou encore leur apprendra \u00e0 d\u00e9montrer de meilleures mani\u00e8res ou une \u00e9tiquette de conduite de meilleure qualit\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Les conducteurs peuvent aussi faire valoir que leur comportement n'a pas d\u2019impact n\u00e9gatif sur les autres. Ces descriptions de motifs portent une forte ressemblance avec les m\u00e9canismes psychologiques de d\u00e9sengagement moral. Le d\u00e9sengagement moral s\u2019observe quand les individus se d\u00e9tachent de leurs processus d\u2019autor\u00e9glementation habituel ou de leur moralit\u00e9 afin de se comporter de mani\u00e8re ayant \u00e0 l'encontre de leurs valeurs morales normales. Le d\u00e9sengagement moral offre une explication potentielle sur la fa\u00e7on dont des personnes apparemment \u00abbonne\u00bb ou de bonne morale commettent des actes \u00ab mauvais \u00bb ou ont des comportements immoraux. Les cat\u00e9gories de d\u00e9sengagement moral sont: la m\u00e9sinterpr\u00e9tation cognitive du comportement (par exemple en mati\u00e8re d'\u00e9tiquetage euph\u00e9misme); d\u00e9connexion avec la cible (par exemple attribuer le bl\u00e2me \u00e0 la cible); et la distorsion ou n\u00e9gation de l'impact du comportement.<\/p>\n

Un sondage en ligne aupr\u00e8s d'un \u00e9chantillon de commodit\u00e9 de conducteurs (N = 294) a \u00e9t\u00e9 utilis\u00e9 pour explorer l'utilit\u00e9 potentielle du d\u00e9sengagement moral pour expliquer l'agression de conduite auto-d\u00e9clar\u00e9e au-del\u00e0 de l\u2019explication fournie par les concepts normalement associ\u00e9e \u00e0 l'agression auto rapport\u00e9 sur la route.
\nUne analyse de r\u00e9gression hi\u00e9rarchique a \u00e9t\u00e9 utilis\u00e9 avec des mesures de col\u00e8re trait, la col\u00e8re pendant la conduite (DAS), le d\u00e9sengagement moral, et le d\u00e9sengagement moral lors de la conduite (une adaptation de la mesure de d\u00e9sengagement moral pour le contexte de la conduite). Les r\u00e9sultats ont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 qu\u2019ensemble, les variables ind\u00e9pendantes expliquent 37% de la variation de l'agressivit\u00e9 auto d\u00e9clar\u00e9e lors de la conduite (telle que mesur\u00e9e par l'\u00e9chelle d\u2019expression col\u00e9rique de conduite [Driving Anger Expression scale, DAX]). Le d\u00e9sengagement moral lors de la conduite \u00e9tait un pr\u00e9dicteur important de l'agression de conduite (p <0,001) apr\u00e8s la prise en compte de la contribution de l'\u00e2ge, du sexe, de la col\u00e8re lors de la conduite, et le d\u00e9sengagement moral lors la conduite. De plus, l\u2019inspection des poids b\u00eata a sugg\u00e9r\u00e9 que le d\u00e9sengagement moral envers la conduite (b\u00eata = 0,57) \u00e9tait le meilleur pr\u00e9dicteur pour cet \u00e9chantillon, repr\u00e9sentant 20% de la variance unique dans l'agression lors de la conduite (SR2 = .20). Les r\u00e9sultats sugg\u00e8rent que les conducteurs ayant des tendances plus \u00e9lev\u00e9s envers le d\u00e9sengagement moral dans le contexte de la conduite peuvent r\u00e9pondre aux autres de fa\u00e7on plus agressive sur la route. En outre, le d\u00e9sengagement moral lors de la conduite a apparemment ajouter \u00e0 notre compr\u00e9hension de la raison pour laquelle certains pilotes en col\u00e8re ne r\u00e9pondent pas de mani\u00e8re agressive sur la route tandis que d'autres le font. Les pistes de solution cherchant \u00e0 emp\u00eacher l'activation du d\u00e9sengagement moral du conducteur pendant la conduite devraient \u00eatre explor\u00e9es comme moyen de r\u00e9duire les formes non-violente, mais encore potentiellement risqu\u00e9e, d'agression lors de la conduite.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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