“…Various studies have been conducted in the literature on disaster preparedness or disaster awareness (Koçak, 2004;Scolobig et al, 2012;Donahue et al, 2014;URL 1;ChungHee et al, 2015;Ozkazanc and Yuksel, 2015;Tanner and Doberstein, 2015;Bhat et al, 2017;Ağahan, 2018;Dökmeci and Merinç, 2018;Şahin et al, 2018;Tkachuck et al, 2018;Dikmenli and Yakar, 2019;Avcı et al, 2020;Cerulli et al, 2020;Ertuğrul and Ünal, 2020;Rogayan and Dollete, 2020;Oyanık and Cengiz, 2020;Suryaratri et al, 2020;Aras et al, 2021;Tekin and Dikmenli, 2021;Türksever, 2021;Demirci, 2021;Aslantaş and Tabuk, 2021;Dinçer and Kumru, 2021;Şahan and Dinç, 2021a;2021b;Hasan et al, 2022;Bor, 2023). The hypotheses put forward for the purpose of the study are as follows:…”