Yes, we can: motivate Dutch citizens to engage in self-protective behavior with regard to flood risks
By Milou Kievik, Jan M. Gutteling. 2011
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Although the risk of flooding poses a serious threat to the Dutch public, citizens are not very inclined to engage in self-protective behaviors. Current risk communication tries to enhance these self-protective behaviors among citizens, but is nonetheless not very successful. The level of citizens engaging in self-protective actions remains rather low. Therefore, this research strives to determine the factors that might enhance or lessen the intention to engage in self-protection among citizens. The study was a 2 (flood risk: high vs low) × 2 (efficacy beliefs: high vs low) between subject experiment. It was conducted to test how varying levels of flood risk and efficacy beliefs influence two different self-protective behaviors, namely information seeking and the intention to engage in risk mitigating or preventive behaviors. Furthermore, the relationship between information seeking and the intention to take self-protective actions was discussed. Results showed that high levels of flood risk lead to higher levels of both information seeking and the intention to engage in self-protective behaviors than low levels of flood risk. For efficacy beliefs, the same trend occurred. Also, results showed that information seeking seems to coincide with the intention to take preventive actions and acted as a mediator between the levels of perceived risk and efficacy and the intention to take self-protective actions.
Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Citizens’ Perceptions of Flood Hazard Adjustments (2013, methodology): “Although several theoretical frameworks are available, so far only protection motivation theory (PMT; Rogers & PrenticeDunn, 1997) was employed in three studies (Grothmann & Reusswig, 2006; Kievik & Gutteling, 2011; Zaalberg, Midden, Meijnders, & McCalley, 2009).”
- What determines flood risk perception? A review of factors of flood risk perception and relations between its basic elements (2018, background): “For the above reasons, a notion that stimulating the feeling of fear is often recommended to increase risk perception is incorrect (Kievik and Gutteling 2010).”