Understanding the Impacts of COVID-19 and Other Disaster Experiences on Motivations to Prepare for Future Disasters.
| Autor: | Jung, Jeesoo, Pyles, Loretta |
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POLICY sciences
WOUNDS & injuries PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience COMMUNITY support LOGISTIC regression analysis CLIMATE change DECISION making PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation DESCRIPTIVE statistics ATTITUDE (Psychology) EXPERIENCE MOTIVATION (Psychology) ODDS ratio RACE SOCIAL learning theory RISK perception SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors DATA analysis software COVID-19 pandemic NATURAL disasters EMERGENCY management REGRESSION analysis PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability |
| Zdroj: | British Journal of Social Work; Oct2024, Vol. 54 Issue 7, p3314-3333, 20p |
| Abstrakt: | Social workers are recognising the increasing frequency and severity of disasters within the context of climate change, and are concerned with supporting communities in preparing, coping and building resilience. Although social workers have had positive impacts on disaster relief and recovery throughout the world, they have been less influential in impacting communities' and individuals' abilities to prepare for future disasters, which requires addressing the structural causes and impacts of disasters. While concerned with macro-level and neoliberal causes and dimensions of disasters, the focus of this research is on micro-level perspectives. Our study investigates whether past experiences of pandemics, including coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), along with other disasters, translate into motivation to prepare for future disasters. We derived the sample from the 2021 US National Household Survey and analysed it using logistic regression analysis. Findings suggest that certain disaster experiences, such as COVID-19 and technological disasters, along with heightened risk perceptions of pandemics and natural disasters, increased people's motivation for disaster preparedness. Such motivation is influenced by sociodemographic characteristics, including race/ethnicity and disability. Using a transformative social work practice lens to articulate implications for social workers, we emphasise addressing root causes of disasters, community-level change work and whole-person, intersectional support and interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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