Personality and the perception of earthquake hazard

Simpson‐Housley, Paul; Bradshaw, Peter W.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8470.1978.tb00316.x

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“…Consistent with the judges' ratings, the situation-appropriateness of monitoring in hostage situations was also revealed in a study by Strentz and Auerbach (1988). Other studies also provided evidence that constant monitoring of negative cues by individuals facing natural hazards (Simpson-Housley & Bradshaw, 1978;Simpson-Housley, Lipinski, & Trithardt, 1978;Sims & Baumann, 1972) and those encountering uncontrollable stressful events (e.g., Cheng, Hui, & Lam, 1999;Folkman, Lazarus, Gruen, & DeLongis, 1986;Miller et al, 1995) increased their anxiety and distress levels. Apart from the four situations described above, we have added four more scenarios to the MBSS that are based on previous theories and research in order to increase the variety of hypothetical stressful situations.…”

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Discriminative Facility and Its Role in the Perceived Quality of Interactional Experiences

Cheng

Chiu

Hong

et al. 2001

Journal of Personality

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Discriminative facility refers to an individual's sensitivity to subtle cues about the psychological meaning of a situation. This research aimed at examining (a) the conceptual distinctiveness of discriminative facility, (b) the situation-appropriate aspect of this construct, and (c) the relationship between discriminative facility and interpersonal experiences. Discriminative facility was assessed by a new measure of situation-appropriate behaviors across a variety of novel stressful situations. Results from study 1 showed that discriminative facility had weak positive relationships with cognitive complexity and nonsignificant relationships with self-monitoring and social desirability, indicating that discriminative facility is a unique construct. Results from Study 2 revealed that higher levels of discriminative facility were associated with higher levels of perceived social support and a greater number of pleasant interpersonal events experienced, thus providing support for the theoretical proposition that discriminative facility is an aspect of social intelligence.

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Discriminative Facility and Its Role in the Perceived Quality of Interactional Experiences

Cheng

Chiu

Hong

et al. 2001

Journal of Personality

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“…In the 1970s, John H. Sims and Duane D. Baumann analysed differences in response to hurricane and tornado strikes in the US between people who put their faith in God and those who felt that they had greater control through meteorological reports (Sims and Baumann, 1972;Baumann and Sims, 1974). The former was more passive, involving no preparedness or very limited action, as people felt that their fate was predetermined-similar cases are described by Simpson-Housley and Bradshaw (1978), Mitchell (2000), Schmuck (2000), and Schipper (2015).…”

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I will not go, I cannot go: cultural and social limitations of disaster preparedness in Asia, Africa, and Oceania

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While much work has been invested in addressing the economic and technical basis of disaster preparedness, less effort has been directed towards understanding the cultural and social obstacles to and opportunities for disaster risk reduction. This paper presents local insights from five different national settings into the cultural and social contexts of disaster preparedness. In most cases, an early warning system was in place, but it failed to alert people to diverse environmental shocks. The research findings show that despite geographical and typological differences in these locations, the limitations of the systems were fairly similar. In Kenya, people received warnings, but from contradictory systems, whereas in the Philippines and on the island of Saipan, people did not understand the messages or take them seriously. In Bangladesh and Nepal, however, a deeper cultural and religious reasoning serves to explain disasters, and how to prevent them or find safety when they strike.

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“…People may be aware of the objective conditions of the environment, but simultaneously they may tend to attempt "dissonance reduction" to eliminate hazard threat (Haque 1988). Examination of the locus of control is important here for assessing an individual according to whether he/she views events as contingent upon their own behavior or resulting from external forces (Simpson-Housley andBradshaw 1978, Wahnsley andLewis 1984, p. 115).…”

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Climatic hazards warning process in Bangladesh: Experience of, and lessons from, the 1991 April cyclone

Haque

1995

Environmental Management

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Science and technology cannot control entirely the causes of natural hazards. However, by using multifaceted programs to modify the physical and human use systems, the potential losses from disasters can effectively be minimized. Predicting, identifying, monitoring, and forecasting extreme meteorological events are the preliminary actions towards mitigating the cyclone-loss potential of coastal inhabitants, but without the successful dissemination of forecasts and relevant information, and without appropriate responses by the potential victims, the loss potential would probably remain the same.

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Personality and the perception of earthquake hazard

Cited by 21 publications

References 7 publications

Discriminative Facility and Its Role in the Perceived Quality of Interactional Experiences

Discriminative Facility and Its Role in the Perceived Quality of Interactional Experiences

I will not go, I cannot go: cultural and social limitations of disaster preparedness in Asia, Africa, and Oceania

Climatic hazards warning process in Bangladesh: Experience of, and lessons from, the 1991 April cyclone

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