East Java Province is on the third position among 34 provinces in Indonesia that experience disaster in 2021. There are several cities in East Java that are identified as disaster-prone area including Surabaya. Surabaya is one of region in Indonesia that reside along the coastline. Geographical location of Surabaya.

Surabaya are one of the region which are prone to hydrological hazard such as flood, drought, and tsunami. Disaster could incur devastated impact economically, socially and psychologically to the society. Infrastructure damage, settlement damage and also industrial damage has affected the economic condition of the community affected by the disaster. Beside of that, being separated from other family member, have to live in a shelter, and loss of privacy is among other social impact of disaster. Disaster victim could also experience mental health issue as a result of being exposed to a disaster event. Research that focuses on psychological impact of disasters has found that disasters experience has induces several psychological problems to the survivor.

There have been several interventions that are develop to reduce the psychological impact of disaster. However, the interventions were only focus in technical preparedness and neglecting the psychological aspects of disaster preparedness. Studies found that psychologically preparing individual to face disaster could help to reduce the psychological impact of the disaster. Research found that, psychologically preparing individual to successfully manage a disaster situation or disaster could also influence their resilience. Thus, the purpose of this study is to describe the psychological preparedness for disaster of coastal communities in Surabaya.

This study shows that the psychological preparedness for disaster of the participants was mostly in average level. Therefore, there is a need to improve the condition especially among people in youth and young adulthood category with age between 1-24 years old in order to mitigate and lower the risk of psychological impact of disaster.

Author: Listyati Setyo Palupi

Details of the article can be viewed at:

https://www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/pdf/2022/07/e3sconf_aiwest-dr2021_05010.pdf