Psycho-Cultural Analysis of Disaster Risk Attitudes in Situation Awareness

Abstract

Natural disasters and human induced disasters are common phenomena in Southeast Asia. As such, there is a need to understand people's vulnerability to disasters and their resilience, as well as their risk behavior and attitudes. Attitude is largely influenced by cultural and demographic factors; this research examined the effects in the context of psycho-cultural situation awareness. Attitude is defined as a summative of five components: risk identification, cognition, affect, trust and behavior; which were explored at three levels of situation awareness: perception, comprehension and projection. Therefore, the objectives of the study were: (1) to identify psycho-cultural similarities and/or differences in risk attitudes of communities for the purpose of disaster management; and (2) to identify group trust and information dissemination network in the face of disasters for the purpose of disaster aid planning.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA598462

Entities

People

  • Halimahtun M. Khalid
  • Martin G. Helander

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Demography
  • Disaster Management
  • Disasters
  • Emergency Response
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Families (Human)
  • Geography
  • Health Services
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Psychology
  • Social Media
  • Social Psychology
  • Traumatic Stress Disorder

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.