The effect of fear for earthquakes and disaster awareness levels of public administrators on disaster preparedness

GÖKKAYA E., ÇELEBİ İ., ÇOPUR A., BALCI E.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, vol.18, no.4, pp.402-415, 2023 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 18 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 2023
  • Doi Number: 10.1504/ijem.2023.141428
  • Journal Name: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
  • Journal Indexes: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, Aerospace Database, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, CINAHL, Communication Abstracts, Compendex, EMBASE, Metadex, Civil Engineering Abstracts
  • Page Numbers: pp.402-415
  • Kayseri University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine the disaster awareness levels and factors affecting preparedness, as well as the earthquake concerns of politicians who are competent in producing policies on disasters, as well as of public administrators. This cross-sectional research was conducted with a total of 422 public managers residing in Kayseri. Earthquake fear scale, disaster awareness scale, and disaster preparedness scale were used in the data collection form. While the earthquake fear scale mean score of the participants who have not worked in any disaster before is significantly higher, the disaster awareness scale and disaster readiness scale mean score of the participants who have worked in any disaster before are significantly higher. In this study, the factors affecting public administrators' earthquake fears, disaster awareness and disaster preparedness were found to be gender, age, education level, marital status, place of work and previous disaster duty history.