@article{ref1,
title="Development of a self-administered questionnaire to assess the psychological competencies for surviving a disaster",
journal="Disaster medicine and public health preparedness",
year="2014",
author="Feng, Danjun and Ji, Linqin",
volume="8",
number="3",
pages="220-228",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To find the psychological competencies for surviving a disaster and develop a self-report questionnaire to assess them. <br><br>METHODS: Interviews with 16 earthquake survivors and 16 fire fighters followed by qualitative analysis were used to find psychological competencies. Formation of the item pool, a pilot study among 20 college teachers and students, a series of principal component analyses for the data from 345 college students, and a confirmatory factor analysis for the data from 307 participants with various occupations were used to develop the Psychological Competencies for Surviving a Disaster Questionnaire (PCSDQ). <br><br>RESULTS: We found 4 psychological competencies: risk perception of a disaster, disaster knowledge and self-relief skills, low fear in a disaster, and sense of control over a disaster. The 24-item PCSDQ assessed these psychological competencies. The Cronbach alpha of PCSDQ subscales ranged from.75 to.87. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The psychological competencies for surviving a disaster were found to be risk perception of a disaster, disaster knowledge and self-relief skills, low fear in a disaster, and sense of control over a disaster. Using the PCSDQ to assess a person's psychological competencies for disaster survival will make it possible to provide that person with an individualized and targeted disaster self-relief education and/or training program. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2014;0:1-9).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1935-7893",
doi="10.1017/dmp.2014.42",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2014.42"
}