The relationship between demographic/educational parameters and perceptions,knowledge and earthquake mitigation in Israel |
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| Authors: | Yechiel Soffer Avishay Goldberg Bruria Adini Robert Cohen Menachem Ben‐Ezra Yuval Palgi Nir Essar Yaron Bar‐Dayan |
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| Institution: | 1. Chief Population Officer in the Israel Defence Force, Home Front Command, Israel;2. Vice Dean and Professor in the Department of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer‐Sheva, Israel;3. Lecturer in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Ben Gurion University, Beer‐Sheva, Israel;4. Professor in the Department of Medical Education, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel;5. Lecturer in the Department of Social Work, Ariel University Center of Samaria, Ariel, Israel;6. Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel;7. Lecturer in the Psagot Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel;8. Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer‐Sheva, Israel. |
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| Abstract: | Perceptions, knowledge and mitigation are factors that might play a role in preventing injury and loss of life during a major earthquake.2 Little is known about the relationships between different demographic and educational parameters and these factors. A national representative sample of 495 adults was investigated in order to determine the relationship between demographic and educational parameters in terms of the perceived threat, perceived coping, knowledge and mitigation of earthquakes in Israel. Compared to females, males perceived the threat of earthquakes to be lower (t=3.183, p=0.002), manifested higher levels of perceived coping (t=2.55, p=0.011), and had higher levels of earthquake related knowledge (t=2.047, p=0.041). We conclude that there are gender differences in perceptions and knowledge regarding earthquakes. |
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| Keywords: | earthquake education gender knowledge mitigation population |
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