title: Terrorism and hazardous material trucking: promoting perceived collective efficacy for terrorism prevention.
abstract: Hazardous-material trucking has recently been identified as an area of high potential risk for terrorism. Some recent theory and case study papers have argued for the importance of collective efficacy to disaster-response, terrorism prevention, and other rare-but-risky events. Therefore, a study based on the collective efficacy literature was done to test an intervention for increasing perceived collective efficacy for terrorism prevention among Canadian hazardous-material truck drivers. Results supported the impact of the intervention in increasing perceived efficacy for terrorism prevention. Implications for theory, research, and application are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Portland State University,Portland, OR 97207, USA. keithj@pdx.edu
authors.forename: Keith
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: James
mesh_terms: D000416:Alberta; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D015386:Hazardous Substances; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016272:Occupational Health; D023481:Terrorism / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014186:Transportation
chemical_list: D015386:Hazardous Substances