Typhoon Risk Perception and Positive Coping Behaviors of Middle School Students in Ningbo City

Yi Peng and Fuying Zhang ()
Additional contact information
Yi Peng: Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics
Fuying Zhang: Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics

A chapter in Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, 2021, pp 1347-1360 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Typhoon disasters usually result in irreversible losses and need effective coping measures. Yet inadequate attention has been paid to the risk perception and risk behaviors of middle school students for typhoon disasters, thereby resulting in lack of effective typhoon disaster education in Ningbo City and even in Zhejiang Province. Such deficiency is not conducive to the implementation of effective measures by society when coping with typhoon disasters. In order to alleviate this deficiency, this study uses Ningbo City as an example to investigate middle school students’ risk perception of typhoon disaster and their positive coping behavior (PCB). This research adopted regression analysis methods to study the impact of economic, liability, personal, and environmental risk perceptions on the active responses of the middle school students to typhoon disasters. Results show that economic, liability, and personal risk perceptions have significant positive effects. The perception of liability and environmental risks is not related to the PCB of the middle school students. Based on the results, policy recommendations are proposed for improving disaster prevention and mitigation education for middle school students in Ningbo City. The research can also provide references for the typhoon disaster prevention and mitigation education in Zhejiang Province and even China.

Keywords: Typhoon disaster; Risk perception; Middle school students; Positive coping behavior (PCB); Disaster prevention and mitigation education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-15-3977-0_103

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9789811539770

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-3977-0_103

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().