Coping with Extreme Hazard Events

Emerging themes in Natural and Technological Disaster Research

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13630630
AutoresK David Pijawka (School of Public Affairs and Center for Environmental Studies, autor correspondente), Beverly Ann Cuthbertson, Richard Stuart Olson (0000-0003-4921-7174, Arizona State University)
Ano1988
Volume18
Fascículo4
Páginas281-297
Data de publicação1988-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/pn24-al37-f96j-rcnp
OpenAlexW2063345235
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas19

The field of thanatology has given extensive attention to death as an outcome of illness. A more comprehensive picture, however, would also encompass the hazards of natural and technological disasters. Deaths from both natural and technological disasters continue to increase in the United States, despite intensified government efforts to reverse this trend, and despite improved understanding of the cognitive processes of people who face either long-term or impending catastrophes. Key findings are reviewed in the areas of vulnerability to natural hazards, disaster behavior and risk perception, societal concern over technological hazard, and the social-psychological effects of disasters. It is noted that findings based upon natural disasters cannot necessarily be extrapolated to technological disasters, such as the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. Furthermore, data on long-term emotional recovery from natural disasters are inconsistent. Among areas requiring more extensive research is the role of the media, and the measurement of secondary consequences to disaster exposure. Improved methodologies for measuring distress over long periods of time must be developed. The disaster may never end for technological disaster victims because of the long latency period between exposure and disease manifestation

Coping (psychology · Disaster research · Geography · Hazard · Natural disaster · Natural hazard · Political science · Preparedness · Disaster Management and Resilience · Disaster Response and Management · Psychology · Risk Perception and Management