Citation

Houts PS, Lindell MK, Hu TW, Cleary PD, Tokuhata G, Flynn CB. Int. J. Mass Emerg. Disasters 1984; 2(1): 27-39.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1984, International Sociological Association, International Research Committee on Disasters)

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Abstract

Interviews with 1,505 persons living within 55 miles of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant three months after the crisis were analyzed to test whether the protective action decision model could predict evacuation behavior during the crisis period. Results indicate that severity, susceptibility, barrier and cost variables were, as suggested by the model, related to evacuation behavior. In addition, several modifications to the model were suggested by the findings including a need to account for why conflicting information may increase evacuation in nuclear disasters while decreasing evacuation in non-nuclear disasters.

Language: en