Perceptions of Risk, Stressors, and Locus of Control Influence Intentions to Practice Safety Behaviors in Agriculture

Elkind, Pamela Dee

doi:10.1080/10599240801985167

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“…Locus of control is an important factor in relation to injury prevention, since it is correlated to beliefs regarding the effectiveness of safety precautions and the usefulness of expert advice. 37 This study indicates that Swedish dairy farmers are aware of the dangers in working with cattle. The farmers could identify specific hazards of different work activities and also what preventive measures to take to decrease injury risks and increase safety.…”

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“…This probably influences farmers' intentions to practice safety behavior in agriculture, as discussed in Elkind. 37 This author uses the concept locus of control, which is a personality trait defined as "the degree to which outcomes are attributed to one's own ability to alter a situation as opposed to external factors such as powerful others, luck or chance." Thus, farmers with an external locus of control typically believe that the reason they sustain injuries or not is just a case of misfortune or luck, whereas those with an internal locus of control believe that their own actions make the difference, i.e., injuries occur due to carelessness or lack of interest in safety.…”

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Swedish Dairy Farmers' Perceptions of Animal-Related Injuries

Lindahl

Lundqvist

Norberg

2012

Journal of Agromedicine

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Animal-related injuries are among the most common occupational injuries in agriculture. Despite the large number of documented animal-related injuries in dairy farming, the issue has received relatively limited attention in the scientific literature. The farmers' own perspectives and views on risks and safety during livestock handling and what they think are effective ways of preventing injuries are valuable for the future design of effective interventions. This paper presents results from a qualitative study with the aim to investigate Swedish dairy farmers' own experience of animal-related occupational injuries, as well as their perceptions of and attitudes towards them, including risk and safety issues, and prevention measures. A total of 12 dairy farmers with loose housing systems participated in the study. Data collection was conducted by means of semistructured in-depth interviews. Three main themes with an impact on risks and safety when handling cattle were identified: the handler, the cattle, and the facilities. They all interact with each other, influencing the potential risks of any work task. Most of the farmers believed that a majority of the injuries can be prevented, but there are always some incidents that are impossible to foresee. In conclusion, this study indicates that Swedish dairy farmers are aware of the dangers from working with cattle. However, even though safety is acknowledged by the farmers as an important and relevant issue, in the end safety is often forgotten or not prioritized. One concern is that farmers are willing to take calculated risks to save money or time. In situations where they work alone with high stress levels and under economic distress, safety issues are easily given low priority.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Swedish Dairy Farmers' Perceptions of Animal-Related Injuries

Lindahl

Lundqvist

Norberg

2012

Journal of Agromedicine

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“…(50)(51)(52) The concept has also been applied to safety studies involving, for example, driving, aircraft piloting, or agriculture. (53)(54)(55) And locus of control has been used in studies of natural disasters, including hurricanes, flooding, and earthquakes. (4,(56)(57)(58) Again, results show that externals typically perceive greater risk while internals exhibit greater self-efficacy-thus often demonstrating greater levels of preparedness.…”

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“…The concept has also been used widely in health behavior studies, where a health‐specific variation on the scale is often used (the multidimensional health locus of control scales) to examine subjects such as pregnancy risks or treatment decisions for cancer . The concept has also been applied to safety studies involving, for example, driving, aircraft piloting, or agriculture . And locus of control has been used in studies of natural disasters, including hurricanes, flooding, and earthquakes .…”

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A Cognitive‐Affective Scale for Hurricane Risk Perception

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The aim of this study was to develop a reliable and valid measure of hurricane risk perception. The utility of such a measure lies in the need to understand how people make decisions when facing an evacuation order. This study included participants located within a 15-mile buffer of the Gulf and southeast Atlantic U.S. coasts. The study was executed as a three-wave panel with mail surveys in 2010-2012 (T baseline N = 629, 56%; T retention N = 427, 75%; T retention N = 350, 89%). An inventory based on the psychometric model was developed to discriminate cognitive and affective perceptions of hurricane risk, and included open-ended responses to solicit additional concepts in the T survey. Analysis of the T data modified the inventory and this revised item set was fielded at T and then replicated at T . The resulting scales were assessed for validity against existing measures for perception of hurricane risk, dispositional optimism, and locus of control. A measure of evacuation expectation was also examined as a dependent variable, which was significantly predicted by the new measures. The resulting scale was found to be reliable, stable, and largely valid against the comparison measures. Despite limitations involving sample size, bias, and the strength of some reliabilities, it was concluded that the measure has potential to inform approaches to hurricane preparedness efforts and advance planning for evacuation messages, and that the measure has good promise to generalize to other contexts in natural hazards as well as other domains of risk.

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“…Again from a realist perspective, we can distinguish the subjective impact and the objective impact, in which the subjective impact is considered more important in driving people's behaviour. Last, the people's behaviour has been shown to depend on the locus of control, defined as the perceived degree of control over something (e.g., Elkind 2008). In our survey, risk perception was conceptualized as consisting of (1) people's subjective probability regarding a series of events; (2) people's subjective impact regarding this series of events and (3) people's subjective influence on the severity of this series of events.…”

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Risk perception, attitudes towards risk and risk management: evidence and implications

Wauters¹,

Winsen

Mey³

et al. 2014

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Abstract:Th e comprehensive risk analysis of a business such as farming entails questions on what is at stake, how important is the risk concern and how to deal with it. We performed a sequential mixed method, with the in-depth interviews in the fi rst stage (n = 35), followed by a survey on the Flemish FADN (n = 614) in the second, to investigate the farmers' risk perception, the attitudes towards risk and the perceived usefulness of the risk management strategies. We fi nd that, rather than the short-term volatility in prices, the longer term co-evolution of expenses versus receipts is of a major concern to farmers, next to the land availability and the policy risks. Farmers are shown to be only slightly risk averse, rather risk neutral even. Further, our results suggest that farmers do not consider extensively studied risk management strategies such as contracts, futures and insurances, a valid option for their farm, and put more faith in internal strategies such as the debt management, the liquidity management and diversifi cation. Last, risk management is to a substantial degree performed at the household level, rather than at the farm level, with strategies such as cutting the private expenses and the off -farm employment. Th ese results hardly diff er according to the farm and farmer characteristics.

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Perceptions of Risk, Stressors, and Locus of Control Influence Intentions to Practice Safety Behaviors in Agriculture

Cited by 45 publications

References 16 publications

Swedish Dairy Farmers' Perceptions of Animal-Related Injuries

Swedish Dairy Farmers' Perceptions of Animal-Related Injuries

A Cognitive‐Affective Scale for Hurricane Risk Perception

Risk perception, attitudes towards risk and risk management: evidence and implications

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