Citation

Liu W, Ni L. Public Relat. Rev. 2021; 47(3): e102047.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.pubrev.2021.102047

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Government and emergency management (EM) agencies play a leading role in managing natural disasters. However, it is less well understood how the quality of the relationship between government and various publics may impact long-term disaster-coping and recovery outcomes. Extending the relationship management framework to the context of disaster management, the current study tests the relationships among different ethnic publics' OPR quality, their communicative behaviors of seeking government and EM information, and disaster-coping outcomes.

RESULTS suggest that government OPR quality is positively related to information seeking and major disaster-coping outcomes, including self-efficacy, collective efficacy, and community resilience perceptions. Moreover, the extent to which OPR quality impacts disaster-coping outcomes significantly diverges across ethnic lines.

RESULTS provide implications for multicultural relationship management in the context of post-disaster recovery and community building.

Language: en

Keywords

Community resilience; Disaster information seeking; Disaster-coping efficacy; Government organization-public relationship; Multicultural publics