Effects of Risk Characteristic and Risk Perception on Risk Severity of Natural Disaster

Song, Hae-Ryong; Kim, Won-Je

doi:10.5392/jkca.2013.13.04.198

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“…South Korea is situated on the eastern edge of the Eurasian Plate, which is widely recognized as an earthquake safety zone [1]. The magnitude 5.8-sized Gyeongju earthquake in September 2016, however, led to a shift in this perception, while the magnitude 5.4 earthquake that occurred in the Red Sea region, 6 km north of Pohang, in November 2017 raised the people's awareness of the damage that can be caused by earthquakes [2,3]. Today, South Korea is constantly experiencing new types of natural disasters and accidents, and many regions in the country suffer damage from such disasters [1].…”

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Factors Influencing Disaster-Incident-Related Impacts on Korean Nursing Students

Kim

Lee

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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The frequency of earthquakes in South Korea is increasing. This study aimed to examine and identify the factors influencing the degree of disaster-incident-related impacts among Korean nursing students who have actual disaster experience. The study sample consisted of 153 nursing students living around the Phohang-si area in Gyeongsang-do, South Korea, and who have actual disaster-incident-related experience. Measures used in this study were the Impact of Event Scale, Perceived Health Status Scale, Psychological Well-Being Scale, and Coping Strategy Indicator (Korean version). The data collection period was from October to December 2018. Factors that influence disaster-incident-related impacts among Korean nursing students in descending order are as follows: perceived health status (β = 0.48), gender (β = −0.28), coping skill (β = 0.18), psychological well-being (β = 0.14), need for disaster education (β = 0.12), and major satisfaction (β = −0.12). This study provides preliminary evidence that perceived health status is a major and primary predictor of disaster-incident-related impacts among Korean nursing students, followed by coping skill and psychological well-being. The findings can be reflected in a pertinent curriculum by actively considering these factors in designing nursing education interventions for managing disaster-incident-related impacts among Korean nursing students.

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Factors Influencing Disaster-Incident-Related Impacts on Korean Nursing Students

Kim

Lee

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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“…South Korea is situated on the eastern edge of the Eurasian Plate, which is widely recognized as an earthquake safety zone [1]. The 5.8-sized Gyeongju earthquake in September 2016, however, led to a shift in the perception that South Korea is a safe zone for earthquakes, and the magnitude 5.4 earthquake that occurred in the Red Sea region, 6 km north of Pohang, in November 2017 raised the people's awareness of the damage that can be caused by earthquakes [2,3]. Today, South Korea is constantly experiencing new types of natural disasters and accidents, and many regions in the country are hit by such disasters and experience the damage caused by these [1].…”

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Factors Influencing the Disaster-Incident-Related Shock Experienced by Korean Nursing Students

Sok¹,

Gu²,

R³

et al. 2019

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The frequency of earthquakes in South Korea is increasing. This study aimed to examine and identify the factors influencing the degree of disaster-incident-related shock among Korean nursing students with the disaster experience. The study sample consisted of 153 nursing students who have been living around Phohang-si in Gyeongsang-do, South Korea, and who having the experience of disaster-incident-related shock. Measures were Impact of Event Scale, Perceived health status scale, Psychological Well-Being Scale, and Coping Strategy Indicator in Korean version. The data collection period was from October to December, 2018. The factor that was found to have the most influence on disaster-incident-related shock among Korean nursing students was the perceived health status (β = 0.48), followed by gender (β = -0.28), coping skill (β = 0.18), psychological well-being (β = 0.14), need for disaster education (β = 0.12), and major satisfaction (β = -0.12). This study provides preliminary evidence that perceived health status is a major and primary predictor of disaster-incident-related shock among Korean nursing students, next followed by coping skill, and psychological well-being. The findings can be reflected in the pertinent curriculum by actively considering these influence factors in designing nursing education interventions for disaster-incident-related shock in the Korean nursing students.

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“…However, although strong wind was third in the rankings of the amounts of damage as of 2012 and strong wind damage is still occurring, concrete measures to reduce this damage have not been sufficiently prepared. This is because the level of perception of the risk of strong wind is lower compared to that of the other disasters (Hong, 2007;Song and Kim, 2013). Therefore, the awareness of the risk of strong wind should be enhanced, and measures to reduce strong wind damage should be presented through studies of the characteristics of the damage caused by strong winds and the types of strong winds that occur.…”

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Study on the Synoptic Meteorological Characteristics of Windstorms Occurring on the Korean Peninsula

Park¹,

Jung²,

Kim³

et al. 2014

Journal of Environmental Science International

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Although most natural disaster related studies conducted in Korea recently have been related to typhoons or severe rainstorms, the occurrence frequency of disasters due to windstorms or rainstorms is also high. To reduce the strong wind damage caused by strong windstorms due to climate change, basic studies of strong winds are necessary. Therefore, in this study, the types and representative cases of windstorms that were observed to have been higher than 14 m/s, which is the criterion for strong-wind warnings from the Korea Meteorological Administration, were selected from among those windstorm cases that occurred on the Korean Peninsula for 10 years to conduct a statistical analysis of them and determine their synoptic meteorological characteristics. The cases of windstorms occurring on the Korean Peninsula were divided into six weather patterns according to the locations of the anticyclones/cyclones. Among these types, the SH type, which occurs when Siberian Highs expand into the Korean Peninsula, showed the highest occurrence frequency, accounting for at least the majority of the entire occurrence frequency of windstorms together with that of the EC type, which occurs when cyclones develop on the East Sea, and there was no clear yearly trend of the occurrence frequencies of windstorms. The monthly occurrence frequencies of windstorms were formed mainly by typhoons in the summer and the Siberian Highs in the winter, and the months with the highest windstorm occurrence frequencies were December and January, in which mainly the SH and EC type windstorms occurred. March showed the next highest occurrence frequency with10 times, and SH windstorms occurred the most frequently in March, followed by the CC, SC, and EC types of windstorms, in order of precedence. Therefore, attention to these types of windstorms is required. Countermeasures against storm and flood damage in Korea targeting the summer should be re-reviewed together with pre-disaster prevention plans, because cases of storm and flood damage due to windstorms occur more frequently than those due to typhoons, and they occur throughout the year.

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Effects of Risk Characteristic and Risk Perception on Risk Severity of Natural Disaster

Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

Factors Influencing Disaster-Incident-Related Impacts on Korean Nursing Students

Factors Influencing Disaster-Incident-Related Impacts on Korean Nursing Students

Factors Influencing the Disaster-Incident-Related Shock Experienced by Korean Nursing Students

Study on the Synoptic Meteorological Characteristics of Windstorms Occurring on the Korean Peninsula

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