Covid-19 pandemic were global disaster that influence all of people around the world. The impact of the pandemic is experienced not only by highly developed world but also under developed world such as Indonesia. The number of covid-19 confirmed cases and death has been increasing although it has been also noticed that the recovery rate were also increase. It is recorded that up until 10th September 2020 the number of people that are infected by the virus are 28.056.120 people all around the world.
The number of covid-19 confirmed case in Indonesia to date has shown a significant increase from the day it was announced by the Government of Indonesian March 2020. In a one month period since August 2020, the number of both the confirmed cases and death were growing significantly. The increase were alarming and made the Government of Indonesia decided to reactivate the lock down policy. The policy that applied to decrease the span of the
disease has casuse several psychological issues to appear to not only children but also teenage, adult, and elderly. College students were also found to be affected by the pandemic
situation. Study found that college students were experience increased negative affect, anxiety, and depression.
Research found that helping individual to successfully manage a disaster situation or disaster impact and to cope with psychological problem could help them to reduce the psychological impact that they experienced. Studies on the disaster preparedness has found that demographic variable become an important factors in disaster preparedness. Several research had been identified several factors that could influence disaster preparedness such as income, age, years of education. The aimed of this research is to investigate the role of gender in psychological preparedness for potential disaster in response to covid-19 pandemic amongst university students.
The finding is that psychological preparedness for potential disaster among university students was not affected by gender. This is inline with previous study that conducted by Morrissey and Resser in their study on the effectiveness of psychological preparedness advice in community cyclone preparedness materials. In this study they conclude that the demographic variables explored in there study including gender were not significantly related with psychological preparedness.
In summary, the result shows that the psychological preparedness for potential disaster is not related to gender. This is due to an equality between male and female in making decision related to disaster preparedness.of the participants.
Author: Listyati Setyo Palupi
Details of the article can be viewed at: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/698/1/012011
