The Psycho-Anthropological Perspectives of Natural Hazards: Applicability of the ‘Protection Motivation Theory’ in Explaining Behavioral Responses Towards Tropical Cyclone Idai in the Chimanimani District of Zimbabwe

IF 1 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Culture & Psychology Pub Date : 2022-05-25 DOI:10.1177/1354067X221103990

D. Kudejira, Maurice Kwembeya, Sifikile Songo, Innocent Sifelani, Memory Matsikure

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Abstract

This paper adopts a psycho-anthropological approach to explain individual behaviors in response to tropical cyclone Idai which made a landfall in the Chimanimani district of Zimbabwe in March 2019. Employing the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) as a lever of diagnosis, the study sought to demonstrate how psychological concepts and anthropological approaches can be infused to improve disaster preparedness. The evidence presented in the paper is based on an intensive ethnographic study conducted in Chimanimani district between November 2020 and July 2021, and which benefited from a variety of data collection techniques. The research findings reveal that beyond its utility in predicting individual protective behaviors towards a disaster, the PMT framework can be adopted as a tool with which postmortems of past disasters can be conducted to identify gaps and inform future disaster administration. The findings suggest that to be useful as a policy making and planning tool, the PMT should remain flexible, allowing for modifications to suite different socio-cultural contexts, including the flexibility to incorporate salient factors that might influence individuals’ cognitive mediating processes.

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自然灾害的心理人类学视角:“保护动机理论”在解释津巴布韦奇马尼马尼地区对热带气旋伊代的行为反应中的适用性

本文采用心理人类学方法来解释2019年3月在津巴布韦Chimanmani地区登陆的热带气旋“伊代”的个体行为。利用保护动机理论（PMT）作为诊断手段，该研究试图证明如何将心理学概念和人类学方法融入到改善灾害准备中。论文中提供的证据是基于2020年11月至2021年7月在Chimanmani区进行的一项深入的人种学研究，该研究受益于各种数据收集技术。研究结果表明，除了预测个人对灾害的保护行为外，PMT框架还可以作为一种工具，对过去的灾害进行事后分析，以确定差距并为未来的灾害管理提供信息。研究结果表明，PMT作为一种有用的政策制定和规划工具，应保持灵活性，允许修改以适应不同的社会文化背景，包括灵活地纳入可能影响个人认知中介过程的显著因素。

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期刊介绍： Culture & Psychology addresses the centrality of culture necessary for a basic understanding of the psychology of human beings: their identity, social conduct, intra- and intersubjective experiences, emotions and semiotic creativity. By drawing on diverse theoretical backgrounds, the editorial aim is to provide an international and interdisciplinary forum for scholarly investigations and discussions that will advance our basic knowledge of the self in its historical and cultural contexts. The orientation of the journal is towards formulating new conceptualizations of culture in psychology, together with theoretically relevant empirical investigations.