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A Cross-Cultural Study On Risk, Uncertainty, And Information

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  • YUMIKO NARA

    (The Open University of Japan, 2-11 Wakaba Mihama-ku, Chiba-shi 261-8586, Japan)

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In this paper, the author aims to examine the differences in perception concerning the anxiety toward the risk among three countries — Japan, the United States of America and China. The anxiety, in this case, is triggered by uncertainty. This paper also intends to clarify the effect of information to improve people's risk management targeted on the respondents of the Chinese population focusing on earthquake disasters. The social survey using questionnaire has been carried out in order to obtain the needed quantitative data for my research project. It is interesting to conclude that both respondents in China and in the United States tend to accept the impact of uncertainty better. They have shown somewhat lower level of anxiety toward nineteen items of the risks as compared with that of the Japanese respondents. The significant effects on information designed as a part of the risk management action plan as well as the living sufficiency safeguard are clearly observed.

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  • Yumiko Nara, 2010. "A Cross-Cultural Study On Risk, Uncertainty, And Information," New Mathematics and Natural Computation (NMNC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 6(02), pages 167-176.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:nmncxx:v:06:y:2010:i:02:n:s1793005710001645
    DOI: 10.1142/S1793005710001645
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