Abstract
This paper aims to structure a relationship between evacuation preparedness, evacuation intention, and the related cognitive factors in order to obtain policy imprications to promote evacuation preparedness and foster evacuation intention. In details, focusing on preparation of an emergency bag and confirmation of evacuation routes/places as evacuation preparedness, the paper analyses the relationships on the basis of Protection Motivation Theory with covariance structure analysis. Consequently, it is shown that evacuation preparedness is promoted by improving not threat appraisal of disasters but coping appraisal of evacuation preparedness. In addition, it is shown that evacuation preparedness contributes to fostering evacuation intention through cognitive factors about self-efficacy and response cost about evacuation.
