Risk perception and emergency experience: comparing a representative German sample with German emergency survivors

Knuth, Daniela; Kehl, Doris; Hulse, Lynn; Spangenberg, Lena; Brähler, Elmar; Schmidt, Silke

doi:10.1080/13669877.2014.910685

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“…A positive experience-risk perception relationship was also found in other studies which examined natural events such as floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes (Bronfman, Cisternas, Repetto, Castañeda, & Guic, 2020;Keller, Siegrist, & Gutscher, 2006;Kung & Chen, 2012;Lindell & Hwang, 2008) and man-made disasters such as fires, explosions, traffic accidents, and terrorist attacks (Knuth et al, 2015;Koshiba & Ohtani, 2015), with small to large effect sizes ranging between d's = 0.26-1.44. Only a relatively small number of studies found either mixed, none, or even reversed experience-risk perception relationships (Halpern-Felsher et al, 2001;Shiloh, Güvenç, & Önkal, 2007;Viscusi & Zeckhauser, 2006).…”

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The Role of Personal Risk Experience—An Investigation of Health and Terrorism Risk Perception in Germany and Israel

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The present study examined the relationship between risk experience and risk perceptions in relation to the target (risk to the self vs. others) and for two different types of risk: acute risks (i.e., terrorist attacks) and cumulative health risks (i.e., alcohol consumption, tobacco consumption, and unhealthy eating) in two countries (Israel and Germany). An online survey (N = 571) was conducted to assess participants’ previous personal experience with acute and cumulative risks and their personal and general risk perceptions. The results showed that personal experience with terrorism was related to increased personal and general risk perceptions, while personal experience with cumulative health risks was related to increased personal but not general risk perceptions. It is argued that an increase in risk perception with more risk experience can be explained by the amount of available information about people's personal as well as other people's risk status. The findings emphasize that the experience–risk perception relationship depends on the target of the risk and the type of risk experience.

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The Role of Personal Risk Experience—An Investigation of Health and Terrorism Risk Perception in Germany and Israel

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“…There is an ongoing debate if Likert data is fit to be transformed to an interval scale by considering that the distance between ordinal-scale elements is the same (Cliff, 1996). Some argue that Likert scale data typically do not meet the assumptions of the parametric tests (Baker et al, 1966;Stevens, 1968;Gaito, 1980;Knapp, 1990;Jamieson, 2004;Gardner and Martin, 2007;Mangiafico, 2016;Kero and Lee, 2016). Others argue (Armstrong, 1981;Kanpp, 1990;Pell, 2005;Norman, 2010) and prove with study cases Perla, 2007, 2008;de Winter and Dodou, 2010;Mircioiu and Atkinson, 2017) that while conceptually parametric statistics is not appropriate, in practice the differences are not important, and in this regard using parametric statistics brings their robustness and sensitivity into the analysis.…”

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“…Personal experience is one of the most critical factors influencing risk perception (Weber, 2006;van der Linden, 2014;Knuth et al, 2015;Öhman, 2017). The study participants indicated that they were affected mainly by droughts, rainstorms, and snowstorms, with farmers bearing high costs (Fig.…”

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Risk perception of local stakeholders on natural hazards: implications for theory and practice

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et al. 2021

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. In Romania, local stakeholders' knowledge plays a role in making decisions for emergencies, supporting rescue officers in natural hazard events, coordinating, and assisting the affected populations physically and psychologically. However, despite the increasing occurrence and severity of natural hazards in the Iași metropolitan area (of north-eastern Romania), there is a lack of knowledge of local stakeholders on how to encourage the population regarding safety actions. For this reason, we interviewed 118 local stakeholders to determine their risk awareness and preparedness capacities over a set of natural hazards, in order to understand where deficiencies in knowledge, action, and trust are greatest. Results reveal substantial distinctions between different threats and among stakeholders based on their cognitive and behavioural roles in the communities. The roles of responsibility and trust are important driving factors shaping their perception and preparedness. Preparedness levels are low, and, for many, learning and preparatory actions are needed to build resilience to the negative occurrences of natural hazards. As the stakeholders' role is to direct interventions in affected areas by managing communication initiatives with the entire population of the community, there is a need to create stakeholders' networks, empowering local actors and serving as a bridge between authorities' decisions and local people, making effective risk management plans, and securing more lives and economies.

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“…The tolerance and variance inflation factor (VIF) values were the measurements used to test the degree of multicollinearity between the independent variables of this study [91]. According to statistical principles, a tolerance ≤0.10 and VIF >3 are considered as benchmarks for multicollinearity [92,93]. In conducting a multivariate logistic regression analysis, a tolerance ≥0.37 and VIF <3 are the thresholds to select the independent variables.…”

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Farmers’ Perception of Water Quality and Risks in the Mashavera River Basin, Georgia: Analyzing the Vulnerability of the Social-Ecological System through Community Perceptions

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Competing natural resources usage that leads to dramatic land use changes can threaten the balance of a social-ecological system. When this is the case, communities are directly exposed to the negative consequences of those land use changes. The Mashavera River Basin is considered one of the hotspots of environmental pollution in Georgia. This is of importance for public health because the food production from this basin meets a substantial proportion of the country’s food demand. The farmers’ perception of the water quality and their perceived risks to the economy, health, and lifestyle reflect the status of the environmental and social conditions. The inclusion of farmers’ risk perceptions is an important stage of water quality governance that could enable active civic participation. The approach of this research study was the convergence model in the triangular design of the mixed method approach. As part of the social data, the research study was conducted with a survey of 177 households, for which agriculture was either a main or partial source of income. A few focus group discussions were also conducted. A binary logistic regression analysis was employed as the main method for the analysis. The results from the pollution load index (PLI) were used as the supportive data to verify some geospatial hypotheses. We found that aesthetic attributes (i.e., color changes observed in the river) and the source of the water contamination (i.e., mining sites) were the main predictor variables for a perceived risk to water quality, health, and livelihoods. The people who work in agriculture as the main income source had more concern about their ability to sell their agricultural products as a result of water contamination in the river, compared with people for whom agriculture is a secondary source of income or for self-consumption. Age, amount of land, years of agricultural experience, and the source of water supply for agriculture did not have a significant effect on any of the risk perception or water quality perception models. The results indicate that the health risk is perceived more strongly in areas with more heavily contaminated water compared to less polluted areas. We propose that conducting a public risk perception assessment is an ideal means to detect people’s concerns regarding water quality governance for future risk analysis in Georgia. Another recommendation of this study is an integrated model of risk assessment that combines the results from a public risk perception assessment and a technical assessment. The benefits of such an integrated assessment include finding new hazard-sensitive areas for further analysis, the possibility to cross-check data for verification, communal communication of hazardous conditions by utilizing local knowledge, and the direct participation of the community in monitoring risks.

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Risk perception and emergency experience: comparing a representative German sample with German emergency survivors

Cited by 25 publications

References 70 publications

The Role of Personal Risk Experience—An Investigation of Health and Terrorism Risk Perception in Germany and Israel

The Role of Personal Risk Experience—An Investigation of Health and Terrorism Risk Perception in Germany and Israel

Risk perception of local stakeholders on natural hazards: implications for theory and practice

Farmers’ Perception of Water Quality and Risks in the Mashavera River Basin, Georgia: Analyzing the Vulnerability of the Social-Ecological System through Community Perceptions

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