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Self-help and mutual assistance in the aftermath of a tsunami: How individual factors contribute to resolving difficulties

Self-aid and mutual assistance among victims are critical for resolving difficulties in the immediate aftermath of a disaster, but individual facilitative factors for such resolution processes are poorly understood. To identify such individual factors in the background (i.e., disaster damage and dem...

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Autores principales: Sugiura, Motoaki, Ishibashi, Ryo, Abe, Tsuneyuki, Nouchi, Rui, Honda, Akio, Sato, Shosuke, Muramoto, Toshiaki, Imamura, Fumihiko
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8496872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34618878
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258325
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author Sugiura, Motoaki
Ishibashi, Ryo
Abe, Tsuneyuki
Nouchi, Rui
Honda, Akio
Sato, Shosuke
Muramoto, Toshiaki
Imamura, Fumihiko
author_facet Sugiura, Motoaki
Ishibashi, Ryo
Abe, Tsuneyuki
Nouchi, Rui
Honda, Akio
Sato, Shosuke
Muramoto, Toshiaki
Imamura, Fumihiko
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description Self-aid and mutual assistance among victims are critical for resolving difficulties in the immediate aftermath of a disaster, but individual facilitative factors for such resolution processes are poorly understood. To identify such individual factors in the background (i.e., disaster damage and demographic) and personality domains considering different types of difficulty and resolution, we analyzed survey data collected in the 3-year aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. We first identified major types of difficulty using a cluster analysis of 18 difficulty domains and then explored individual factors that facilitated six types of resolution (self-help, request for help, help from family, help from an acquaintance, help through cooperation, and public assistance) of these difficulty types. We identified general life difficulties and medico-psychological difficulties as two broad types of difficulty; disaster damage contributed to both types, while some personality factors (e.g., neuroticism) exacerbated the latter. Disaster damage hampered self-resolution and forced a reliance on resolution through cooperation or public assistance. On the other hand, some demographic factors, such as being young and living in a three-generation household, facilitated resolution thorough the family. Several personality factors facilitated different types of resolution, primarily of general life difficulties; the problem-solving factor facilitated self-resolution, altruism, or stubbornness resolutions through requests, leadership resolution through acquaintance, and emotion-regulation resolution through public assistance. Our findings are the first to demonstrate the involvement of different individual, particularly personality, factors in survival in the complex social dynamics of this disaster stage. They may contribute to disaster risk mitigation, allowing sophisticated risk evaluation and community resilience building.
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spelling pubmed-84968722021-10-08 Self-help and mutual assistance in the aftermath of a tsunami: How individual factors contribute to resolving difficulties Sugiura, Motoaki Ishibashi, Ryo Abe, Tsuneyuki Nouchi, Rui Honda, Akio Sato, Shosuke Muramoto, Toshiaki Imamura, Fumihiko PLoS One Research Article Self-aid and mutual assistance among victims are critical for resolving difficulties in the immediate aftermath of a disaster, but individual facilitative factors for such resolution processes are poorly understood. To identify such individual factors in the background (i.e., disaster damage and demographic) and personality domains considering different types of difficulty and resolution, we analyzed survey data collected in the 3-year aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. We first identified major types of difficulty using a cluster analysis of 18 difficulty domains and then explored individual factors that facilitated six types of resolution (self-help, request for help, help from family, help from an acquaintance, help through cooperation, and public assistance) of these difficulty types. We identified general life difficulties and medico-psychological difficulties as two broad types of difficulty; disaster damage contributed to both types, while some personality factors (e.g., neuroticism) exacerbated the latter. Disaster damage hampered self-resolution and forced a reliance on resolution through cooperation or public assistance. On the other hand, some demographic factors, such as being young and living in a three-generation household, facilitated resolution thorough the family. Several personality factors facilitated different types of resolution, primarily of general life difficulties; the problem-solving factor facilitated self-resolution, altruism, or stubbornness resolutions through requests, leadership resolution through acquaintance, and emotion-regulation resolution through public assistance. Our findings are the first to demonstrate the involvement of different individual, particularly personality, factors in survival in the complex social dynamics of this disaster stage. They may contribute to disaster risk mitigation, allowing sophisticated risk evaluation and community resilience building. Public Library of Science 2021-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8496872/ /pubmed/34618878 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258325 Text en © 2021 Sugiura et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Honda, Akio
Sato, Shosuke
Muramoto, Toshiaki
Imamura, Fumihiko
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8496872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34618878
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258325
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