Data survey of students behavioral and psychological adaptations in disaster-prone areas of Mount Merapi in Indonesia

This set of data provides the data related to the measurement of behavioral and psychological adaptation on students in disaster-prone areas of Mount Merapi in Indonesia. The survey was conducted online by considering respondents agreement in filling the demography data (4 questions), behavioral adaptation (17 questions) and psychological adaptation (9 questions). The survey was done on March–June 2021. Total respondents were 364 students who were selected through probability-based cluster sampling for schools around disaster-prone areas 1–3 of Mount Merapi eruption. Respondents were from 15 private and state schools at the slope of Mount Merapi (Central Java and Yogyakarta, Indonesia) and categorized as disaster-prone areas of eruption. The survey data were analyzed using multivariate analysis. The data can help educators, researchers or the government to find out students’ preparedness level in dealing with Mount Merapi eruption in the future and to strengthen the integration of educational management disasters in the school curriculum.