The Effect of Disaster Knowledge on the Preparedness Attitudes of the Students of Universitas Negeri Padang in Facing Earthquake Disasters
Zikri Alhadi, Inda Dwi Rahayu, Ory Riandini

Universitas Negeri Padang

Abstract

This study aims to determine the effect of disaster knowledge on the preparedness attitude of Padang State University students, especially the Air Tawar Main Campus. The city of Padang is still frequently hit by earthquakes, making people have to be ready to face disaster. Thus, it is appropriate for Padang State University as an education institution to provide information and education in order to provide disaster knowledge related to earthquake disaster. One of the things that Padang State University does is make disaster management courses in every student curriculum.
In addition, this will make students not know what to do if at any time an earthquake occurs. The research method used is quantitative with the number of respondents being 395 students. The results of the study indicate that disaster knowledge has a significant effect on the attitudes of Padang State University students towards disaster preparedness in responding to earthquake disaster. This can be proven by the (1) results of calculation with a significance value of 0,00 less than o,05. (2) the contribution of the disaster knowledge variable to preparedness attitudes is 16,6%, while 83,4% is influenced by the other variables not discussed in this study. (3) based on the t-test, the error rate is set at 0,05 df = n-2 (395-2) = 393, so that t table = 1,996, t count = 8,920. When t count is greater than t table, then the effect is significant.

Keywords: disaster knowledge, earthquake, preparedness attitude

Topic: Optimization Research Based on Local Resources