Place Attachment and Household Disaster Preparedness: Examining the Mediation Role of Self-Efficacy.

ABSTRACT: Household preparedness is essential for resilience-building and disaster risk reduction. Limited studies have explored the correlations between place attachment, self-efficacy, and disaster preparedness, especially in the east Asian cultural context. This study investigates the mediating role of self-efficacy between place attachment and disaster preparedness based on data from the 2018 Shandong General Social Survey (N = 2181) in China. We categorized the preparedness behaviors into three specific clusters: material, behavioral and awareness preparedness. Multiple linear regressions and the Sobel Goodman tests were employed to estimate the correlations with the control of necessary confounding variables such as disaster experience, socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. The result

SUBMITTER: Wang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8197108 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature