Citation

Kang JE, Lindell MK, Prater CS. J. Appl. Soc. Psychol. 2007; 37(4): 887-903.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1559-1816.2007.00191.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study compared respondents' hurricane evacuation expectations with their actual behavior 2 years later during Hurricane Lili. Respondents were found to have accurate expectations about their information sources, evacuation transportation modes, number of vehicles taken, and evacuation shelter types. They also had generally accurate expectations about the time it would take them to implement some, but not all, evacuation preparation tasks. These results extend contemporary attitude-behavior models by demonstrating a significant degree of correspondence between behavioral expectations and much later behavior under quite stressful conditions and suggest emergency planners can use many, but not all, aspects of coastal residents' evacuation expectations as a satisfactory basis for evacuation planning.