{"title":"How does artificial intelligence usage affect the safety behavior of bus drivers? A double-edged sword study","authors":"Yunshuo Liu , Yanbin Li , Lili Hu , Qichao Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.02.026","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study aims to provide a framework for understanding the mechanism by which artificial intelligence (AI) usage affects the safety behavior of bus drivers through cognitive appraisal theory. We examined data from 555 bus drivers at three-time points. Our findings indicate that AI usage is positively related to both safety self-efficacy and job insecurity, which in turn are linked to safety behavior. Safety self-efficacy and job insecurity mediate the relationship between AI usage and safety behavior. Additionally, we found that trait resilience moderates the positive relationship between AI usage and safety self-efficacy, as well as the relationship between AI usage and job insecurity. Furthermore, trait resilience moderates the indirect effect of AI usage on safety behavior through safety self-efficacy and job insecurity. The results suggest that AI usage has two faces, both enhancing and impairing the safety behavior of bus drivers. These findings are crucial for management theory and practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48355,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part F-Traffic Psychology and Behaviour","volume":"111 ","pages":"Pages 32-44"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Transportation Research Part F-Traffic Psychology and Behaviour","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369847825000737","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This study aims to provide a framework for understanding the mechanism by which artificial intelligence (AI) usage affects the safety behavior of bus drivers through cognitive appraisal theory. We examined data from 555 bus drivers at three-time points. Our findings indicate that AI usage is positively related to both safety self-efficacy and job insecurity, which in turn are linked to safety behavior. Safety self-efficacy and job insecurity mediate the relationship between AI usage and safety behavior. Additionally, we found that trait resilience moderates the positive relationship between AI usage and safety self-efficacy, as well as the relationship between AI usage and job insecurity. Furthermore, trait resilience moderates the indirect effect of AI usage on safety behavior through safety self-efficacy and job insecurity. The results suggest that AI usage has two faces, both enhancing and impairing the safety behavior of bus drivers. These findings are crucial for management theory and practice.
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Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour focuses on the behavioural and psychological aspects of traffic and transport. The aim of the journal is to enhance theory development, improve the quality of empirical studies and to stimulate the application of research findings in practice. TRF provides a focus and a means of communication for the considerable amount of research activities that are now being carried out in this field. The journal provides a forum for transportation researchers, psychologists, ergonomists, engineers and policy-makers with an interest in traffic and transport psychology.