The effect of fear for earthquakes and disaster awareness levels of public administrators on disaster preparedness Online publication date: Thu, 12-Sep-2024
by Emrah Gökkaya; Ismet Çelebi; Adeviye Çopur; Elçin Balci
International Journal of Emergency Management (IJEM), Vol. 18, No. 4, 2023
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.
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