남동엽  임혜선  박상현

Vol. 36,  No. 6, pp. 56-62, Dec.  2021
10.14346/JKOSOS.2021.36.6.56

fine particle risk perception risk attitude protection behavior

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In this study, the factors affecting the psychological damage of disaster victims were explored using the “Long-term survey on the change of life of Disaster victim” data constructed by the National Disaster Management Research Institute. The obtained results were utilized to suggest a recovery plan for psychological damage caused by disasters. The data used for the analysis included the survey data of disaster victims who consecutively participated in the survey in 2019 and 2018. To examine the factors that affected the post-traumatic stress level experienced by the disaster victims at the time of the survey, after controlling the post-traumatic stress level in the patients in 2018, factors affecting the post-traumatic stress level in 2019 were explored. The independent variables included age, gender, years after disaster, perceived scale of damage, resilience, social support, and community resilience. Further, the effects of the variables was examined using stepwise regression analysis. The analysis result revealed that the effect of these variables was in the order of resilience, community resilience, age, perceived scale of damage, and year after disaster. In addition, gender and social support level were excluded from the regression model. The result indicates that the symptoms of post-traumatic stress reduce with an increase in the resilience of the victims and the community resilience. In contrast, post-traumatic stress symptoms were enhanced with an increase in age and perceived scale of damage. Therefore, to reduce the consequence of psychological damage caused by disasters in the future, it is essential to develop an approach that can increase the resilience of disaster victims and enhance the resilience of the community to disaster. In addition, it is necessary to approach disaster psychological recovery support from a long-term perspective based on the age and damage scale.