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Individual Recovery Process from the 1995 Kobe Earthquake Disaster: 
The 2001 Panel Survey &
the 2002 Restoration Public Housing Tenants Survey Results
  • Shigeo Tatsuki
    Department of Sociology
    Doshisha University
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The 2001 Panel Survey
  • To construct valid and reliable measures of the seven critical life recovery elements that was proposed by the 1999 Kobe TQM assessment and that can be repeatedly used in the next two panel surveys.
  • To test which variables or combinations of variables best predict level of life recovery.
  • To assess the effectiveness of some of the governments’ recovery assistance policy initiatives and to provide future policy implications


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Seven Elements for Everyday Life Recovery
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Number of Opinion Cards for Each Life Recovery Category
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Research Overview
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Research Overview (cont.)
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Overview of the predictor and dependent variables
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Comparisons of Adjusted R-Squared among the General Linear Models
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General Linear Model of Life Recovery
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The integrated model accounted for 59.3 % of the total variance of Life Reovery
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Life Recovery by Generation
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Life Recovery by House Damage by Generation
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Life Recovery by Occupation by House Damage
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Causal Relation Diagram for Housing
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The 2002 Restoration Public Housing Tenants Survey Study Results
  • Date: October to November, 2002


  • 27,412 households in 328 Restoration Public Housing Complexes
  • N=17,127(62.5%)
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The most severely damaged have moved to the restoration public housing units
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What is Life Recovery ?
  • The 1999 Disaster Process Study
  • The 2001 Panel Survey Study





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An Image of Life Recovery Process
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Everyday Life being Restored
  • ①ここの団地で、どのように暮らしていけば良いのか、そのめどは立った。
  • ②毎日の生活は、震災前と同じように、決まったことのくり返しに感じられるようになった。
  • ③震災直後は物欲が減ったという人が多かったが、今はもう震災前と変わらない。
  • ④現在が、「ふつう」のくらしに感じられる。
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Struggle for Meaning Vs. Retreat
  • ①震災での体験は、日常生活では得られない得がたい経験だった。
  • ②震災での体験は、私の過去から消し去ってしまいたい経験だった*。
  • ③今ではもう震災を話題にすることもなくなった* 。
  • ④「自分に与えられた人生の使命とは何か」を考えるようになった。
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Three Different Evaluations of Disaster Experiences
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Recovery Types among the Restoration Public Housing Tenants
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  Stress Model
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Stressor > Resources = Stress
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Retreat as Stress Coping Strategy
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Struggle for Meaning as Stress Coping Strategy
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Life Recovery Process Model