Factors Affecting Household Disaster Preparedness Among Foreign Residents in Japan
Factors Affecting Household Disaster Preparedness Among Foreign Residents in Japan
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DOI：
10.1093/ssjj/jyaa026
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发表时间：
2021-12-01
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Sano, Yae
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作者：
Green, David;Linley, Matthew;Sano, Yae
日本是一个以其毁灭性的自然灾害和高度的社区备灾而闻名的国家。然;老龄化社会带来的人口压力，使外国人人口不断增加，但学者们对这一群体的防灾水平却关注甚少。本文利用2015年名古屋市外国人调查的代表性数据，首次探讨了日本外国人家庭防灾准备的差异。虽然发现有许多因素会影响备灾，但最重要的似乎是国籍、灾害培训经验和接触灾害信息的情况。日语能力，也许令人惊讶的是，是次要的。因此，我们认为，一个人的文化背景和他们接触的信息，当地的危害影响他们的能力，以确定和评估风险，这增加了他们为家庭做好应急准备的可能性。这项研究不仅提供了对外国人口中可能推动应急准备活动的深入了解，灾难信息。它的主要含义是，日本的不同移民人口需要一个战略上不同的方法时，考虑干预措施，以解决灾害的脆弱性。
Japan is a country known both for its devastating natural disasters and its high level of community preparedness. However; while demographic pressures stemming from an aging society have led to a growing foreign population, scholars have paid little attention to understanding the levels of disaster preparedness exhibited by this group. Using representative data from the 2015 Nagoya City Foreign Resident Survey, this article is the first to explore variations in household disaster preparedness among Japan's foreign residents. Although numerous factors were found to affect preparedness, the most important appear to be national origin, experience with disaster training and exposure to disaster information. Japanese language proficiency, perhaps surprisingly, was of minor importance.We thus argue that a person's cultural background and their exposure to information about local hazards affect their ability to identify and assess risk, which increases the likelihood that they will prepare their household for emergencies.This study not only provides insight into what might drive preparedness activities within foreign populations but also helps explain how migrants obtain disaster information. Its main implication is that Japan's disparate migrant populations require a strategically varied approach when considering interventions to address disaster vulnerability.