Relativity analysis between indirect disaster experience and household earthquake preparedness

• DOI: 10.2208/journalip.23.243
• Publication Date: 2011-07-20T08:01:00Z
• Authors: Yoko MATSUDA; Norio OKADA
• Keywords: 05 social sciences; 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences

The paper discusses the relativity between household-based earthquake preparedness behaviors and indirect disaster experience in their inhabited area or witnessed through media. A questionnaire survey has been carried out to know what kind of experience (in distance and hazard type) triggers what kind of countermeasures. Based on the ratio of initially adoptions before the experiences and triggered adoptions after-the-fact, the survey result shows that (1) disasters occurred in a neighborhood area triggers (2) low-cost countermeasures in the sense of the number of their adoptions. Local circumstance also brings significant on behavior after disaster experiences.