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According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, safety education in Japanese schools comprises three domains—disaster safety, traffic safety, and daily-life safety—as defined in the School Health and Safety Act. This study focuses on disaster safety, a foundational issue that influences all three domains and involves large-scale impacts requiring educational intervention. It aims to clarify the structural characteristics of how teachers, who play a central role in school safety, cognitively evaluate diverse crisis events. Teachers who participated in school safety instructor training programs in Miyagi, Okayama, and Niigata Prefectures were surveyed regarding 20 crisis events. Four psychological constructs—perceived likelihood (Q1), perceived impact (Q2), crisis imagery (Q3), and self-efficacy (Q4)—were measured through corresponding questionnaire items, and a risk perception score ( R score), calculated as Q1 × Q2, was included in the analysis. The analysis revealed a significant positive correlation between Q1 and Q2, indicating that teachers tend to evaluate the frequency of occurrence and expected degree of damage in an interrelated manner. A significant positive correlation was also observed between Q3 and Q4, suggesting that events that can be vividly imagined tend to enhance self-efficacy. Furthermore, a significant positive correlation between R score and Q4 indicated that both tended to be rated highly for large-scale disasters but relatively low for low-frequency hazards. Self-efficacy was found to be generally lower than risk perception, implying a potential gap between recognition and action. Notably, a “Quadrant IV group,” in which self-efficacy remained low despite reaching a moderate level of risk perception, was identified, and these crisis events were recognized as priority targets for educational intervention. These findings indicate that this analytical framework is effective for comprehensively understanding the psychological structure of disaster risk reduction (DRR) literacy. It can also be applied to assess learning outcomes for both teachers and students, providing foundational insights for improving the “recognition–judgment–action” learning process in DRR education.

DOI： 10.20965/jdr.2026.p0114

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Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：The Japanese Psychological Association  

DOI： 10.4992/jjpsy.96.23029

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DOI： 10.20965/jdr.2024.p0182

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This study demonstrates that a decision-making process utilising ‘the veil of ignorance’ concept, defined in process terms as beginning from a blank slate encompassing the entire country as potential sites and shortlisting candidate sites based on scientific (geological) safety, promotes public acceptance of siting a repository for the geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste and fosters procedural fairness. A hypothetical scenario experiment was conducted in Japan, manipulating the site selection process by setting two conditions—one being the application/proposal condition that the Japanese government currently employs, such as an application by municipalities or a proposal by the government, and the other being the veil of ignorance condition, in which multiple candidate areas are selected from a blank slate for the entire land area based purely on geological factors. Three stages of acceptance were presumed—at the level of general management policy, the site selection process itself with a specified decision policy, and the siting of a repository in their area of residence. Two hypotheses were tested: (a) the veil of ignorance condition will be evaluated as a more acceptable and fairer procedure and will engender increased national consensus than the application/proposal condition at the site selection and repository siting stages, and (b) procedural fairness and national consensus will impact acceptance at each stage; these variables at each stage help shape the same variables in the next stage. The results supported these hypotheses. This study discusses the importance of the site selection process, beginning where any de facto site can be a candidate and shortlisting the candidate sites based on scientific criteria.

DOI： 10.1057/s41599-023-02139-2

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DOI： 10.1080/17470919.2023.2280060

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DOI： 10.11447/jjra.O-22-018

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：The Japanese Society of Environmental Education  

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When the location of NIMBY (not in my backyard) facilities is focused, legitimate decision‐making rights tend to be preferentially given to local residents, an attitude defined as a superior legitimization of the concerned parties. Moral foundations and empathic concern are hypothesized to predict the process of superior legitimization of the concerned parties. We conducted an experiment wherein participants evaluated the legitimacy of residents and government agencies in view of the site selection of a geological disposal facility focused on ingroups or outgroups. In both groups, the legitimacy of the residents was notably higher, and the roles of moral foundations and empathic concern on the judgment of legitimacy were indicated. One reason why residents are self‐evidently legitimatized superiorly in the context of NIMBY facilities, therefore, should be that such judgments are based on intuitive moral judgment and empathic concern.

DOI： 10.1111/jpr.12455

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Japan Academy of Nursing Science  

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Expectant and nursing mothers need to prepare for natural disasters to protect their lives and their children’s lives and to maintain their health and daily life after the disaster. This study aimed to clarify the actual conditions of disaster preparedness behaviors of expectant and nursing mothers and to identify factors promoting disaster preparation behavior and behavioral intentions that lead to disaster preparation behavior among expectant and nursing mothers. We conducted a cross-sectional survey involving 1,000 expectants and nursing mothers between October 2020 and January 2021 using an anonymous self-administered questionnaire. We received 135 valid responses. The questionnaire included items about the actual status of disaster preparation, attitudes toward preparation behavior based on Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior, subjective norms on disaster preparation determined by perceived expectations from others, descriptive norms on disaster preparation that refer to the perceptions of others’ engagement in disaster preparation behavior, perceptions of behavioral control that refer to views regarding how easy or difficult it is to perform a given behavior, and social support sources that are required for disaster preparation behavior. Correlations among variables were analyzed. A structural equation modeling technique was used to test a model to explain factors encouraging expectant and nursing mothers to prepare for disaster.

DOI： 10.20965/jdr.2022.p1068

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：The Society for Risk Analysis, Japan  

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DOI： 10.32165/jasag.31.2_143

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Japanese Group Dynamics Association  

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DOI： 10.20965/jdr.2021.p0794

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DOI： 10.11492/ceispapersen.2020.2_47

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Authorship：Lead author   Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Informa UK Limited  

DOI： 10.1080/13669877.2020.1750457

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DOI： 10.20965/jdr.2020.p1011

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DOI： 10.11353/sesj.33.24

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DOI： 10.11447/sraj.28.81

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DOI： 10.4189/shes.17.59

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<p>The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of compensation framing on acceptance of a high level radioactive waste (HLW) geological repository. Monetary compensation is sometimes provided for local governments as a benefit for accepting certain risks. However, Fray et al. (1996) demonstrated that monetary compensation failed to procure acceptance of a nuclear waste disposal repository. In reality, offering to improve social welfare is also sometimes used as compensation for accepting a risky facility. From the above, we hypothesized that monetary compensations would be rejected by residents of proposed site. To test these hypotheses, we conducted a scenario experiment. We conducted a web-based survey and obtained 1200 valid Japanese responses. The results demonstrated that there were no main effects of condition, which suggested that the framing of compensation had no significant impact on acceptance of a HLW geological repository.</p>

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Society for Human Environmental Studies  

This study examined the determinants of public acceptance of siting a repository for High-level radioactive waste (HLW), focusing on procedural fairness and trust. The study presumed that interactive effect of procedural fairness × trust on public acceptance exist. To examine the presumption, the study implemented a hypothetical scenario experiment that manipulated two factors: an opportunity of voice as an antecedent of procedural fairness and value similarity to the authority as a component of trust. Three-hundred seventeen people participated in the web-based experiment. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: procedural fairness (voice vs. no voice) × trust (similarity vs. no similarity) factorial design associated with acceptance of siting investigation for a repository of HLW. The experiment measured affective reaction to the siting, and evaluations of procedural fairness, trust, public acceptance in the decision-making process. Results indicated that affective reaction, procedural fairness, and trust determined public acceptance. Moreover, the interactive effect of procedural fairness × trust on public acceptance was found. A process analysis indicated that the effect of procedural fairness was strengthened when the trust on similarity was negative.

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DOI： 10.20965/jdr.2017.p1139

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DOI： 10.20965/jdr.2017.p1117

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DOI： 10.1016/j.appet.2016.11.022

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DOI： 10.20965/jdr.2017.p1097

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings)   Publisher：日本環境心理学会  

DOI： 10.20703/jenvpsy.5.1_34

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Japanese Group Dynamics Association  

<p>This study examined the factors that influence whether people cooperate with government policies regarding natural resource management. We investigated the psychological processes that promote cooperative intentions towards such policies among rural residents, who tended to be concerned about natural resource management, and urban residents, who were less concerned about this issue. This study focused on grassland management in Inner Mongolia, China. Specifically, a survey was conducted to analyze the effects of procedural justice, confidence in the government, and legality on the subjects' intention to cooperate with government policies regarding grassland management in Inner Mongolia. The rural residents (n=146) were villagers, mostly herders, whereas the urban residents (n=262) lived in Hohhot city. The results indicated that among the rural residents confidence in the government had a marked influence on their intention to cooperate, whereas among the urban residents legality modulated the effects of procedural justice on their cooperative intentions. Therefore, this suggested that even though various actors contribute to shaping social policy, only the values emphasized by the majority of society have a significant effect on the success of a policy.</p>

DOI： 10.2130/jjesp.1606

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DOI： 10.2130/jjesp.1518

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DOI： 10.24778/jjser.37.2_38

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For the success of community-based natural resource management, it is important that self-governing management organizations approve the legitimacy of rights for the management of a resource. In some resource management cases, it was observed that an organization that did not have authorized institutional legitimacy was in reality still able to manage a natural resource in that region. This study focused on the grassland management of Baga'eren Gacha village in Inner Mongolia, China; moreover, an interview survey was conducted to examine the substance of legitimacy that was approved for the management of the self-governing management organization, "the Village (Gacha) Committee," and the effect of the committee's procedural fairness. These aspects show that villagers regard the common land management's economic value as most important and accept the committee as the legitimate manager based on performance evaluation. Additionally, it is suggested that the effect of procedural fairness is less than that of distributive fairness. Furthermore, we discussed the function of the committee to modulate mismatch values between the administration and the villagers.

DOI： 10.4189/shes.14.55

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DOI： 10.4189/shes.13.153

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DOI： 10.1111/ajsp.12097

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DOI： 10.1016/j.resconrec.2013.12.014

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DOI： 10.4992/jjpsy.84.557

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This study examined the impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident on the public acceptance of siting a disposal facility of high level radioactive waste (HLW). We applied the social acceptance model to predict public acceptance of investigation for siting of a geological disposal facility of HLW. 1930 Japanese people completed longitudinal internet surveys that were measured before the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident (in February, 2011) and after the accident (in February, 2012). Results indicated that the level of public acceptance of investigation for siting of a geological disposal facility decreased after the accident. Intergenerational subjective norm, social benefit and procedural fairness determined public acceptance consistently before and after the accident. However, the perceptions of stigma and intergenerational subjective norm became more salient after the accident. Our results show that the Fukushima nuclear accident reminds people of ethical problems of acceptance of a geological disposal facility of HLW.

DOI： 10.11447/sraj.24.49

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DOI： 10.1016/j.appet.2013.04.014

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DOI： 10.11447/sraj.21.33

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Authorship：Lead author   Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Informa UK Limited  

DOI： 10.1080/13669877.2010.503936

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DOI： 10.4189/shes.8.123

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DOI： 10.1016/j.jenvp.2007.01.005

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<p>It is urgent and important to cultivate the capacity of citizens in reducing damage due to disasters, especially under the pressing threat of the Tokai or Tonankai Earthquake disaster. This study established a workshop program, which developed citizens' capacity to mitigate and prepare for disasters in their local community. This program contains three workshops; 1)awareness of hazards and enumerating local vulnerability and possible damage, 2)listing objectives of disaster mitigation and preparedness of the region, 3)embodying a disaster action plan for the area. We applied this method to the project of increasing the capacity of disaster reduction by citizens living in Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, Japan. The result was that they succeeded in producing their own disaster action plan. However, the awareness of extending disaster action to other people living in the same area did not increase.</p>

DOI： 10.32165/jasag.17.1_29

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Authorship：Lead author   Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：The Japanese Society of Social Psychology  

DOI： 10.14966/jssp.KJ00004740703

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The purpose of this study is to examine psychological determinants of promoting P&R measure. Our hypothesis was based on the decision making model of environment conscious behavior (Hirose, 1995). A survey was carried out for residents in the area where a social experiment of P&R was being implemented, and 893 responses were obtained (61%). The results were as follows, a) Main determinants of public transport choice behavior were perceived behavior control, cost evaluation and behavioral intention. b) Attitude and subjective norm affected the behavior indirectly by way of behavioral intention. We discussed that psychological strategy only for encouraging the environment consciousness was insufficient, while the strategies of affecting to perceived behavior control and cost evaluation should be emphasized.

DOI： 10.2208/jscej.2004.772_203

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