TY - JOUR
T1 - Filipinos’ intention to participate in 2022 leyte landslide response volunteer opportunities
T2 - The role of understanding the 2022 leyte landslide, social capital, altruistic concern, and theory of planned behavior
AU - Cahigas, Maela Madel L.
AU - Prasetyo, Yogi Tri
AU - Persada, Satria Fadil
AU - Nadlifatin, Reny
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - Leyte is one of the landslide-prone areas in the Philippines. The April 2022 Leyte landslide resulted in severe impacts such as deaths, physical injuries, and damaged infrastructure. Although many organizations spearhead disaster relief operations to help the victims, volunteers' perceptions are overlooked. Thus, the study determined the factors affecting Filipinos' intention to participate in Leyte landslide response volunteer opportunities by extending the Theory of Planned Behavior. A total of 475 valid Filipino respondents participated in the study. The questionnaire comprised fifty (50) measures and seven (7) latent variables. Through structural equation modeling (SEM), eleven (11) hypotheses were formulated and found significant. Understanding the Leyte Landslide had a direct positive effect on social capital and altruistic concern. Both social capital and altruistic concern positively impacted attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control. Then, attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control positively influenced intention to volunteer. The findings could be used by stakeholders, the media, government, and disaster relief organizations, to upsurge the volunteerism intention of Filipinos. The stakeholders could adapt the presented strategies and practical implications to establish a more structured system centered on volunteers’ needs. Finally, future researchers could utilize the extended TPB to identify volunteer acts of individuals in other natural disaster-prone regions.
AB - Leyte is one of the landslide-prone areas in the Philippines. The April 2022 Leyte landslide resulted in severe impacts such as deaths, physical injuries, and damaged infrastructure. Although many organizations spearhead disaster relief operations to help the victims, volunteers' perceptions are overlooked. Thus, the study determined the factors affecting Filipinos' intention to participate in Leyte landslide response volunteer opportunities by extending the Theory of Planned Behavior. A total of 475 valid Filipino respondents participated in the study. The questionnaire comprised fifty (50) measures and seven (7) latent variables. Through structural equation modeling (SEM), eleven (11) hypotheses were formulated and found significant. Understanding the Leyte Landslide had a direct positive effect on social capital and altruistic concern. Both social capital and altruistic concern positively impacted attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control. Then, attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control positively influenced intention to volunteer. The findings could be used by stakeholders, the media, government, and disaster relief organizations, to upsurge the volunteerism intention of Filipinos. The stakeholders could adapt the presented strategies and practical implications to establish a more structured system centered on volunteers’ needs. Finally, future researchers could utilize the extended TPB to identify volunteer acts of individuals in other natural disaster-prone regions.
KW - And structural equation modeling
KW - Landslide
KW - Leyte
KW - Theory of planned behavior
KW - Volunteer
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103485
DO - 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103485
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85143867936
SN - 2212-4209
VL - 84
JO - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
JF - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
M1 - 103485
ER -