IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jscscx/v12y2023i9p496-d1231687.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

An Exploratory Study on the Association between Community Resilience and Disaster Preparedness in the Rio Grande Valley

Author

Listed:
  • Dean Kyne

    (Department of Sociology, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX 78539, USA)

Abstract

(1) Background: Severe weather events have impacted over 100 million Americans in the past two years, highlighting the importance of individual disaster preparedness in building community resilience. This study aims to investigate the factors influencing individuals’ perceived disaster resiliency and preparedness in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. (2) Methods: Data were collected from 846 respondents using the Communities Advancing Resilience Toolkit (CART) Assessment Survey instrument. The study employed structural equation modeling (SEM) to explore the association between disaster preparedness and community resilience. (3) Results: The findings of the study revealed a significant association between disaster preparedness and perceived community resilience. (4) Conclusions: The study’s findings provide an assessment of the community strengths (assets) in the Rio Grande Valley, which can be utilized to develop initiatives and programs aimed at enhancing community resilience and individual disaster preparedness. These findings contribute significantly to the theoretical understanding of the interplay between community resilience and individual preparedness for disasters.

Suggested Citation

  • Dean Kyne, 2023. "An Exploratory Study on the Association between Community Resilience and Disaster Preparedness in the Rio Grande Valley," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 12(9), pages 1-18, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:12:y:2023:i:9:p:496-:d:1231687
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/9/496/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/9/496/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:12:y:2023:i:9:p:496-:d:1231687. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.