Effects of Anxiety, Disaster Education, and Resources on Disaster Preparedness Behavior

Mishra, Sasmita; Suar, Damodar

doi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.2011.00853.x

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“…Such heightened anxiety vulnerability is associated with a range of dysfunctional outcomes. Trait anxiety is also negatively associated with natural hazard preparedness in individuals living in areas prone to floods, heatwaves, or earthquakes (de Man & Simpson-Housley, 1988;Mishra & Suar, 2012;Paton, Smith, & Johnston, 2005). Evidence from the field of health psychology further suggests that heightened anxiety vulnerability is associated with poorer engagement in health protection and disease prevention.…”

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“…Some researchers have suggested that anxietylinked impairments in preparedness for potential danger may be the result of biased attentional processes known to be associated with anxiety (Duval & Mulilis, 1999;Mishra & Suar, 2012). Some researchers have suggested that anxietylinked impairments in preparedness for potential danger may be the result of biased attentional processes known to be associated with anxiety (Duval & Mulilis, 1999;Mishra & Suar, 2012).…”

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“…Given that it appears to intensify anxiety responses to stressors, it is perhaps unsurprising that researchers have tended to conceptualise AB to threat as a maladaptive process that may contribute to the observed anxiety-linked impairment in preparedness behaviour (Duval & Mulilis, 1999;Mishra & Suar, 2012). According to this position, which will be termed the maladaptive bias hypothesis, anxiety-linked AB to threat contributes to the negative relationship between trait anxiety and preparedness behaviour.…”

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Does attentional bias to threat ameliorate or exacerbate the detrimental effect of trait anxiety on behavioural preparedness for real‐world danger?

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2016

Australian Journal of Psychology

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Objective: Heightened trait anxiety is associated with impaired behavioural preparedness for natural hazards. However, little is known about the mechanisms that contribute to this association. Research has shown that trait anxiety is associated with an attentional bias (AB) towards threat-relevant information, and some researchers have suggested that such vigilance could exacerbate the detrimental effect of trait anxiety on behavioural preparedness. Conversely, given the potentially adaptive role of AB in promoting engagement in danger mitigation behaviour, it is also possible that AB could ameliorate the negative association between anxiety and preparedness. The aim of this study was to discriminate the validity of these two hypotheses. Method: Participants were recruited from a bushfire-prone community in Western Australia and were assessed on measures of trait anxiety, AB to threat, and current bushfire preparedness. Results: As predicted, the results showed a negative correlation between trait anxiety and bushfire preparedness, and a positive correlation between trait anxiety and AB to bushfire-related threat. Furthermore, the negative relationship between trait anxiety and preparedness was moderated by this AB to bushfire-related threat, with the direction of this moderation showing that AB further exacerbated this negative relationship. Conclusions: This study is the first to show that in a situation where people are exposed to a real-world danger that can be mitigated through appropriate engagement in specific preparatory behaviours, AB to danger-relevant threat serves to strengthen the observed negative association between trait anxiety and behavioural preparedness. Implications of these findings are discussed.

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Does attentional bias to threat ameliorate or exacerbate the detrimental effect of trait anxiety on behavioural preparedness for real‐world danger?

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“…Anxiety-prone persons do not show adaptive responses in crises because of their emotional distress. They think that the person in position of authority will take care of them in crises (Mishra and Suar 2012). Furthermore, following the ancient scriptural lessons, most Indians have learnt to practise serenity in thinking and action (Suar 2013), and to be non-anxious.…”

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Enhancement Bias in Portrayal of Self and Others on Personality Traits: A Test of Two Explanations

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Mishra

2015

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This study examined whether individuals show self-enhancing tendencies in perceiving their self-esteem and self-protecting tendencies in perceiving their trait anxiety compared with their friends. It also tested whether motivational and/or cognitive explanations account for self-enhancement. Four hundred ten management students from two institutes in India participated. A questionnaire was administered containing socio-demographic information, and inventories of self-esteem, trait anxiety, and tolerance of ambiguity. Inventories with differing instructions assessed the participants' perception of their friends' self-esteem and friends' trait anxiety. Results suggested that individuals perceive themselves to have higher self-esteem and less anxiety than their friends. While males who have low ambiguity tolerance scores increase their self-esteem and decrease their anxiety compared with their perceptions of friends, females who have high ambiguity tolerance scores do not show such selfenhancement. Conclusively, motivated desire of males and their shallow information processing jointly explain the enhancement bias.Though self-serving bias is an attributional phenomenon of taking credit for success and putting blame on others or circumstances for failure, it also appears in social comparisons (Myers 2005;Pal 2007;Shepperd, Malone, and Sweeny 2008;Taylor and Brown 1988). Individuals tend to enhance the positivity or decrease the negativity of their self-view in comparison with others. Most people see themselves as friendlier, more ethical, more intelligent, more insightful, more competent, better adjusted, less prejudiced, and less biased in their self-assessments than similar others (cited in Myers 2005, p.70). The tendency to see oneself better than similar others misinterprets reality (Taylor and Brown 1988) and is a bias. To our knowledge, rating oneself higher than others on a valued personality trait and rating oneself lower than others on a not-valued personality trait, have not been studied simultaneously. Though such self-enhancement bias (SEB) is an etic/universal phenomenon (Higgins and Bhatt 2001; Hooghiemstra 2008), it is reported to be high in individualistic and low in collectivist cultures. Also, controversies continue about whether motivational and cognitive explanations account for SEB (Shepperd et al. 2008). Taking such issues into consideration, this study (a) investigated whether self-enhancement emerged in descriptions of self and others on a desirable and an undesirable personality trait in the collectivist society of India, and (b) searched for the explanatory mechanism of self-enhancement.Most people depict themselves as happier, more optimistic, and better adjusted than people who are similar to them (Taylor and Brown 1988). This is an above-average effect. Also, most people report a lesser likelihood than their peers that they will commit automobile accidents (Robertson 1977),

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“…Џонсон (Johnson еt al., 2014) у раду указује да постоји позитивна корелација између спремности домаћинства и учешћа деце у образовним програмима о катастрофама. Мишра и Суар (Mishra & Suar, 2012) указују да су образовање о катастрофама и ресурси делимични посредници између анксиозности и спремности за поплаве и главни посредници између анксиозности и спремности за топлотне таласе. Ронан и сарадници (Ronan, Crellin & Johnston, 2012) у раду потврђују значајну улогу образовних програма о опасностима у подизању нивоа спремности домаћинства за катастрофе.…”

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Спремност За Реаговање На Природну Катастрофу – Преглед Литературе

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Aпстракт: У научној литератури не постоји јасан консензус у погледу теоријског одређења, као и начина (природе) утицаја разноврсних фактора на спремност за реаговање на природне катастрофе. Управо стога, систематичним прегледом постојећих истраживања и примењених теоријских концепата, могуће је уочити неопходност њихове даље систематизације, а посебно потребе даљег објашњења међусобне повезаности демографских, социоекономских и психолошких фактора са нивоом спремности за реаговање на природну катастрофу. Сходно томе, предмет рада представља дескрипција и анализа релевантних научних радова (88) са циљем њиховог разврставања према критеријумима теоријског одређења и фактора утицаја на ниво спремности за реаговање на природне катастрофе. Резултати истраживања омогућавају јасан увид у мрежу постојећих теоријских објашњења и фактора који утичу на ниво спремности. Претрага постојећих радова у домаћој и страној литератури извршена је уз помоћ сервиса ,,Google scholar", популарне мреже кооперативног ,,on line" библиографског система и сервиса (COBISS), српског цитатног индекса (SCI) и портала конзорцијума библиотека Србије за обједињену набавку (KoBSON).Кључне речи: безбедност, природна катастрофа, спремност, реаговање, грађани, домаћинства, заједница, преглед литературе. УВОДПоследице природних катастрофа је немогуће избећи. Ипак, адекватним системом управљања (ублажавање, спремност, одговор, опоравак) у природним катастрофама, могуће их је минимизовати. Значајност унапређења спремности за реаговање посебно долази до изражаја ако се има у виду тренд пораста броја природних катастрофа * Криминалистичко-полицијска академија, Београд;

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Effects of Anxiety, Disaster Education, and Resources on Disaster Preparedness Behavior

Cited by 63 publications

References 28 publications

Does attentional bias to threat ameliorate or exacerbate the detrimental effect of trait anxiety on behavioural preparedness for real‐world danger?

Does attentional bias to threat ameliorate or exacerbate the detrimental effect of trait anxiety on behavioural preparedness for real‐world danger?

Enhancement Bias in Portrayal of Self and Others on Personality Traits: A Test of Two Explanations

Спремност За Реаговање На Природну Катастрофу – Преглед Литературе

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