Older women: How do they feel while driving and what about the effects of age-and-gender stereotype threat?

Older female drivers could be considered victims of negative stereotypes for two reasons-being a woman and belonging to the older category-but there are no studies specifically in this double context. Two psychosocial questionnaires were created, one assessing the perception of driving abilities in...

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Published in:Journal of women & aging 2023-05, Vol.35 (3), p.268-279
Main Authors: Gaymard, Sandrine, Chauveau, Laura, Cohen, Golda
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Automobile driving
Automobile Driving - psychology
Automobiles
Driving
Emotions
Female
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
older
Older people
Osgood scales
Perception
Perceptions
Quasi-experimental methods
Research design
stereotype threat
Stereotypes
Stereotyping
Surveys and Questionnaires
Threats
Women
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Summary:Older female drivers could be considered victims of negative stereotypes for two reasons-being a woman and belonging to the older category-but there are no studies specifically in this double context. Two psychosocial questionnaires were created, one assessing the perception of driving abilities in different contexts (PDADC); the second, the perception of the attributes of driving (PAD) with a box for the activation of the stereotype threat. A population of 98 women, aged 65 years or older, comprised the experimental and control groups (quasi-experimental design). This study provides knowledge about the driving feelings of this population who appears, globally, as comfortable at the wheel and "immune" to stereotyping.
ISSN:0895-2841
1540-7322
1540-7322
DOI:10.1080/08952841.2022.2044704