Muhammad Amir Mallarangan, Wasir Thalib, Maddatuang, Guntur Yusuf, Gufran Darma Dirawan
This research purpose is to describe the socio-economic status, environmental knowledge;mitigation attitudes; and disaster prevention behavior in the coastal area of Makassar City, and to find out: the direct effect of socio-economic status to disaster prevention behavior; direct positive effect of environmental knowledge to disaster prevention behavior;direct positive effect of socio-economic status to bahavior; direct positive effect of environmental knowledge; to mitigation attitude; and direct positive effect of mitigation attitude to disaster prevention behavior in the coastal area Makassar city. Moreover sample in this research amounted to 127 respondents. Sampling techniques conducted by using Multi-Stage Proportional Random Sampling.The research design is Path Analysis on the effect of exogenous variables,namely Socio-Economic Status (X1), Environment Knowledge (X2); Intermediate variable, namely the Attitude Mitigation (X3); and endogenous variables namely Disaster Prevention Behavior (X4). Data collection techniques used in this research is observation, interviews, and questionnaires. Data analysis techniques using descriptive statistic and inferential statistic with the Path analysis.The results showed that, there is a positive and significant effect of socioeconomic status to the behavior of disaster prevention; there is a negative effect of the environment knowledgeto the disaster preventionbehavior. There is a positive and significant effect of socioeconomic status to the mitigation attitudes. Which means that the higher the socioeconomic status, the higher also the mitigation attitude.There is no positive and significant effect of environmental knowledge to mitigation attitudes. This means that if environmental knowledge is higher, then the attitude of mitigation is lower. There is no positive and significant effect of the mitigation attitude to thedisaster prevention behavior. This means that if the mitigation attitude is higher then the disaster prevention behavior is lower. © Research India Publications.
Makassar state university, Kampus Gunungsari Baru, Jl. A.P. Pettarani, Kec. Makassar, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia
