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The Relationship Between Ages, Duration of Stay, and the Number of Households on Community Readiness to Face Floods in Kelantan Journal of Advance Research in Social Science & Humanities ISSN: 2208-2387 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AGES, DURATION OF STAY, AND THE NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS ON COMMUNITY READINESS TO FACE FLOODS IN KELANTAN Nurul Aini Mehat Tuan Pah Rokiah Syed Hussain1 ABSTRACT– Previous studies have failed to relate the factors of knowledge, experience, and opinions with the aspects of readiness within the community from the perspective of age, duration of stay and the number of households in the flood basin area. Meanwhile, the scope of this study is a basis for the authorities to determine the relating to flooding in certain areas. The objective of the study is to determine the relationship between the age, duration of stay, and the number of households with community readiness from the cognitive aspects to face the flood disaster. The study involved two areas of Kota Bharu and Kuala Krai. A survey was conducted on 383 respondents using a convenience sample technique. The result of the study shows that the younger the respondent; the better the awareness of flood-related knowledge; the newer the respondent living in an area; the better the awareness of flood-related knowledge, the fewer the people in the household in a family, the better the awareness of flood-related aspects and experience, the newer the duration of one respondent; the better the awareness of flood-related aspects and opinion. The results as a whole show that in the context of a relationship, tests found that respondents' knowledge of flood-related disasters is determined by age and duration of stay only, but the number of the households does not affect a person's knowledge. In the context of the respondents' experience of facing flood disaster, it is only determined by the number of households; while the respondents' opinion is only determined by the duration of their staying. Keywords: Disaster, Environment, Flood, Kelantan, Monsoon, Readiness INTRODUCTION The extreme flood phenomenon of 2014 was extensively covered by the local press, and this issue is very serious and needs to be followed by an action in a holistic manner. This will help in finding the best resolution to minimize the loss of life, destruction, and high damage. It will also create a strategy for improvement in the management of major floods when it happens. In the event of the extreme flood disaster, the country suffered a loss of RM2.85 billion, 25 people died and the number of victims involved was high compared to previous years of which 500,000 people (Ibrahim Komoo, 2015; Department of Irrigation and Drainage, 2014). In fact, Department of Social Welfare State of Kelantan (SWD) recorded 13 victims of casualties due to 1 School of Government, College of Law, Government and International Studies, Universiti Utara Malaysia. Corresponding author: [email protected] Volume-4 | Issue-10 | October,2018 55 Journal of Advance Research in Social Science & Humanities ISSN: 2208-2387 drowning involving 12 boys and 2 girls and a more tragic is severe devastation to sink some areas, causing many houses in Kuala Krai to be destroyed and disappeared (Syed Hussain & Ismail, 2013). Floods continued to terrorize them in the Kota Bharu district which had crippled almost the entire affected areas and the depth of flooding above the danger level of 5.0 meters due to the sudden increase of water up to the placement of the victims bringing about 71,561 victims of about 20,395 families displaced (Hussain, et al., 2014). Overall, the floods that occurred apparently threatened the well-being and community life as well as social disruption resulting impact on the community which may affect the quality of life of individuals and communities (Werrity et al., 2007). The research problem was no explanation through the past studies about the readiness of the community to face this disaster in the context of the age, duration of living and number of households. Thus, the objective of the study is to determine the relationship between the factors of age, duration of living, and the number of households with the cognitive aspects of community readiness to face the floods disaster. LITERATURE REVIEW Cognitive readiness refers to the mental activity or procedure to obtain information and understanding through the experience of thought and reasoning, memory, judgment, and evaluation, thought and calculations and reasoning and critical thinking and leadership base (Kang et al., 2004). This cognitive concept is also described as an intellectual procedure by using the available information and create new knowledge, rational action procedures, and the activity of thought, understanding, knowledge and memory (Petersen et al., 2014). Thus, with the cognitive components of knowledge, experience, and previous opinion can help increase the readiness among the community during the flood event. The flood phenomenon is considered to be a disaster when its occurrence poses a danger and high risk not only of death and loss of property, but it can also give a psychological effects such as the study conducted by Dorji (2006) in Bhutan found the flood victims facing mental health problems, especially trauma throughout life and capable to provide internal problems to individuals or flood victims (Abdul Samad Hadi, 1974; Chan & Parker, 2000). Additionally, previous studies also highlighted the effects of traumatic to the flood victims, among them the study conducted by Acharya et al. (2006), Becker-Blease et al. (2010), Aizhong Liu et al. (2006), Li et al. (2010) and Walsh (2007). For instance, the report obtained from the crisis intervention program and psychological support conducted by the Department of Social Welfare Malaysia (JKMM) on flood victims in Kelantan, found that 14, 995 children and 289 adults were affected by depression and trauma effects of the flood events (Rohani, 2015). Similarly, a study conducted by Chan (1995a; 1995b), on households that inhabit in the floodplain in Malaysia, found that the psychological effects suffered by the flood victims in terms of stress, health, anxiety, and chaos. The psychological impact of these individuals is affected by the damage and destruction of property caused by the floods. In addition to that, previous studies prove that apart from the direct impact on trauma, the victims of the disaster also suffered injuries and physical pain effects of disasters (Hull et al., 2001; Morgan et al., Volume-4 | Issue-10 | October,2018 56 Journal of Advance Research in Social Science & Humanities ISSN: 2208-2387 2003; Galea et al., 2005). When the stress response of the disaster became more chronic, it will affect the physical system of the human body such as atherosclerosis, obesity, damaged bones and atrophy of brain cells (McEwen, 2010). In fact, according to Lin and Ensel (2010) life stress if experienced by a disaster victim can damage his physical well-being. Hence, most of the studies carried out indicate the existence of a direct relationship between the effects of disasters with psychological problems. The flood victims who suffer from anxiety and mental health problems have a low perception of themselves (Kamal, 1999) including feeling sad and worried when reminiscing the destruction and loss suffered. Additionally, the lack of readiness will directly cause the flood victims to suffer feelings of low self-esteem. Therefore, a study by Rao (2006), in Bangalore, India found that flood victims need psychological support to prepare themselves to face the flood disaster. This will increase the level of community readiness to flood and help reduce anxiety and stress on the community. Floods are among the critical issues of the world that are often associated with the psychological aspects, in particular, to help improve readiness among individuals when there is an event such as a flood. This is because, mental and psychological preparation will improve the ability to think rationally and will reduce the possibility of any serious injury caused by the disaster and also reduce the loss of life (Reser, 2009). Therefore, cognitive readiness signifies mental preparation for an effective change in response to changing circumstances or unpredictable situation in a rapidly changing world. According to Fletcher (2004), readiness cognitive is a mental preparation (including the skills, knowledge, abilities, motivation, and personality). In addition, cognitive include many dimensions such as knowledge and experience that provide a rational basis for implementing individual actions. Hereby, the aspect of readiness is very important to help people to react and the face of the flood disaster. Thus, the problematic behavior or indiscipline can be avoided and further produce good behavior (Alberto & Troutman, 1990). Gregg (2004) states that readiness is to minimize the potential adverse effect of effective precautionary measures, timely, efficient for any action on emergency response and disaster relief assistance. From a psychological perspective, when dealing with flood disasters, the internal readiness aspect (cognitive and effective) and external (psychomotor) strongly influence community readiness to deal with the issue of flooding. However, this study only focuses on the aspects of cognitive readiness (internal) community. Due to the fact that readiness refers to the mental activity or procedure of obtaining information and understanding through the experience of thinking then, understanding and having a knowledge about flooding is necessary. This will enhance the readiness of society which will enable them to respond
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