caa a22 4500 605450870 CHVBK 20210128105154.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10433-015-0337-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10433-015-0337-0 "The closer you get ...”: age, attitudes and self-serving evaluations about older drivers [Elektronische Daten] [Dieter Ferring, Isabelle Tournier, Denis Mancini] 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. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 Older drivers nationallicence Awareness of age-related changes nationallicence Subjective age nationallicence Self-serving bias nationallicence Ferring Dieter Research Unit INSIDE, University of Luxembourg, Campus Walferdange, 7201, Luxembourg, Luxembourg aut Tournier Isabelle Research Unit INSIDE, University of Luxembourg, Campus Walferdange, 7201, Luxembourg, Luxembourg aut Mancini Denis Association Luxembourg Alzheimer, Luxembourg, Luxembourg aut European Journal of Ageing Springer Netherlands 12/3(2015-09-01), 229-238 1613-9372 12:3<229 2015 12 10433 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-015-0337-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-015-0337-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ferring Dieter Research Unit INSIDE, University of Luxembourg, Campus Walferdange, 7201, Luxembourg, Luxembourg aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tournier Isabelle Research Unit INSIDE, University of Luxembourg, Campus Walferdange, 7201, Luxembourg, Luxembourg aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mancini Denis Association Luxembourg Alzheimer, Luxembourg, Luxembourg aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Journal of Ageing Springer Netherlands 12/3(2015-09-01), 229-238 1613-9372 12:3<229 2015 12 10433 SWISSBIB 354623605