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Morality and intergroup jugdments among heavy truck drivers

Moralité et jugements intergroupes chez les chauffeurs de poids-lourds

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Background Within a competitive market, heavy truck drivers from different countries in the east, west and south of Europe travel on French roads. They shared the same highways and rest areas and more generally the driving context. As all social groups, they have tacit knowledge and stereotypes about themselves and other groups. The aim of this research is to describe social comparison processes and to explore antecedents and consequences of intergroup stereotypes in the context of work. Following the idea that the attribution of morality (Greene, 2013) is a way to solve the cooperation problem, we predict that attributions about morality-based behaviors are the best predictors of intergroup attitudes. Besides feelings of low controllable working demands may increase stereotypes. Method From a multilingual survey among truck drivers circulating in France, the questionnaire was administered, on an iPad, at four highway rest areas among 515 truck drivers (M= 45.8 years old, SD= 10.1 ; 98,8% males). Drivers come from Eastern Europe (19%), from Western Europe including France (61,6%) and from Southern Europe (19,4%). Results No differences were observed about stress and burnout level, and self-reported health among the three groups. Even if they are the focus of negative stereotypes, eastern drivers showed a low level of ingroup favoritism compared to drivers from Western and Southern Europe. As expected, the main differences between groups were observed on items that describes unfair (inter-vehicle distance on the road) or unethical behavior (siphoning off the fuel tank of a truck). The more drivers judged work demands as stressful (waiting time to upload and unload, traffic jams, crowding of rest areas) the more they attribute negative stereotypes about other groups. Conclusions As transportation market is more open to competition in Europe, heavy truck drivers express social comparison beliefs. Morality attributions may be a way to adjust to the complex word. Some antecedents arise from perceived work demands and others from more beliefs within the general population about outgroups. Strategies to increase cooperation between heavy truck drivers will be explored.

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Psychologie
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hal-04173217 , version 1 (28-07-2023)

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Thierry Meyer, Alexandra Gheorghiu, Patricia Delhomme. Morality and intergroup jugdments among heavy truck drivers. International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology (ICTTP7), THE SWEDISH NATIONAL ROAD AND TRANSPORT RESEARCH INSTITUTE (VTI); SAFER Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre at Chalmers, Aug 2022, Gothenburg (Sweden), Sweden. ⟨hal-04173217⟩
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