نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی - پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Urban crises, due to their extensive economic, social, and environmental consequences, hold significant importance in urban management, and identifying factors that enhance citizens’ preventive behaviors is a critical research priority in this area. This study, entitled "Modeling the Relationships among Institutional Trust, Social Awareness, and Preventive Behaviors in Urban Crisis Management", aimed to examine the effects of institutional trust and social awareness on preventive behaviors and to test the mediating role of social awareness. The study population consisted of citizens over 18 years old residing in Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, and Tabriz, who are exposed to various urban hazards such as earthquakes, floods, air pollution, and health crises. A sample of 320 participants was selected using stratified random sampling. Data were collected during the first half of 1404 (Iranian calendar). The research instrument was a standardized questionnaire including 12 items for institutional trust, 10 items for social awareness, and 14 items for preventive behaviors, whose reliability and validity were confirmed through Cronbach’s alpha, composite reliability, and confirmatory factor analysis. Data were analyzed using SPSS and AMOS software and the structural equation modeling (SEM) approach. The results indicated that institutional trust had a direct and positive effect on social awareness (β=0.48, t=6.00) and preventive behaviors (β=0.22, t=3.67), and social awareness had a significant direct effect on preventive behaviors (β=0.55, t=7.86). Moreover, the indirect effect of institutional trust on preventive behaviors through social awareness was 0.26, with a confidence interval excluding zero, confirming the partial mediating role of social awareness. Based on these findings, enhancing citizens’ trust in official institutions and promoting social awareness can simultaneously increase preventive behaviors in response to urban crises, and urban policymakers can improve community resilience and preparedness by focusing on these two factors.
کلیدواژهها English