Primary Study of a Scale of Attitude toward Culture of Living with Disaster Risk:

Application Analysis and Verification toward a Scale Development

Abstract

This study aims to develop a newly-developed measure, the Scale of Attitude toward Culture of Living with Disaster Risk (SAC-LDR). First, a pool items were designed by workshops. Second, sensitivity analysis with data before and after the interventions from two groups and a confirmatory factor analysis for construct validation were conducted. As a result, the SAC-LDR is consists of Factor 1: “home town love and disaster tradition” and Factor 2: “comprehension of blessings of nature and disaster risk acceptance” with 10 items. The scores of SAC-LDR was significantly increased before and after the program that intends relationship with disaster risk and blessings of nature with Kurikoma Geopartk contents. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient of total items of SAC-LDR were from 0.804 to 0.861.