Disaster Resilience Differs between Survivors and Victims’ Families: A Semantic Network Analysis

Jae-Eun Lee, Seol-A Kwon, Eugene Song and Sang Il Ryu
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Jae-Eun Lee: Department of Public Administration, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Korea
Seol-A Kwon: National Crisisonomy Institute, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Korea
Eugene Song: Department of Consumer Science, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Korea
Sang Il Ryu: Department of Fire Administration and Disaster Management, Dong-Eui University, Busan 47340, Korea

Social Sciences, 2022, vol. 11, issue 3, 1-16

Abstract: The main purpose of this study is to clarify the difference in disaster resilience between survivors and victims’ families by analyzing the language used in popular literature on disaster cases. The results showed that there were differences in emotions, behaviors, attitudes, role perceptions, etc., between survivors and victims’ families in dealing with a disaster. In particular, survivors remember and think about the situation that occurred at the time of the disaster, which creates resilience to the incident, while victims’ families attempt to establish resilience to the incident by investigating the facts and government countermeasures. While survivors were focused on building their own resilience, victims’ families were more focused on improving government countermeasures to prevent such accidents from recurring. This can be considered as social or national resilience. Based on this comparative analysis, it is necessary to prepare various theoretical foundations for disaster preparedness and resilience, while further elaborating the theory.

Keywords: disaster; resilience; disaster literature; language network analysis; crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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