The Role of Earthquake Risk Perception in the Relationship between Post-Earthquake Stress and Employee Performance in Türkiye

Year 2025, Volume: 12 Issue: 2, 107 - 117

Hüseyin Tolga Çağatay , Yüksel Demirel , Bekir Ertuğrul , Esin Başaran , Serap Salimoğlu , Mustafa Gülşen

https://doi.org/10.18394/iid.1572944

Abstract

Two consecutive earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş have significantly impacted life and business in Türkiye at 2023. It is thought that risk perception, which is expressed as the perceived probabilities of the consequences of the earthquake hazard and the perceived intensity of the effects of this hazard, plays a role in this impact. This study examines the mediating role of earthquake risk perception in the relationship between post-earthquake stress and employee performance. The study was conducted among 1780 employees in Ankara, Türkiye in March-April 2023, one month after the earthquakes in the Kahramanmaraş region. The study found a negative relationship between perceived stress and employee performance, a positive relationship between perceived stress and earthquake risk perception, and a negative relationship between earthquake risk perception and employee performance. Earthquake risk perception mediates the stress-performance relationship. Research on earthquake risk can help organizations in earthquake-prone regions in strategic planning, disaster preparedness, and stress management, and can positively affect employee performance.

Keywords

Earthquake risk perception , Perceived stress , Employee performance , Natural hazards

Ethical Statement

All procedures performed in studies involving human participants conform to the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its subsequent amendments or comparable ethical standards. For this research, Başkent University Ethics Committee Approval was obtained from the Scientific Research Ethics Committee with decision number: 17162298.600-54 and date 16.02.2023.

Supporting Institution

This study has not received support from any organization such as government, commercial or non-profit organizations.

Türkiye'de Deprem Sonrası Stres ve İşgören Performansı İlişkisinde Deprem Risk Algısının Rolü

Abstract

Kahramanmaraş'ta 2023 yılında art arda meydana gelen iki deprem, Türkiye'de yaşamı ve iş dünyasını önemli ölçüde etkilemiştir. Bu etkilenmede deprem tehlikesinin sonuçlarına yönelik algılanan olasılıklar ve bu tehlikenin etkilerini algılanma şiddeti olarak ifade edilen risk algısının rolünün olduğu düşünülmektedir. Bu çalışma, deprem sonrası stres ve çalışan performansı arasındaki ilişkide deprem risk algısının aracılık rolünü incelemektedir. Araştırma, Türkiye’de Mart-Nisan 2023 döneminde, Kahramanmaraş bölgesinde yaşanan depremlerden bir ay sonra Ankara’da 1780 çalışan üzerinde gerçekleştirilmiştir. Çalışmada, algılanan stres ile çalışan performansı arasında negatif, algılanan stres ile deprem risk algısı arasında pozitif ve deprem risk algısı ile çalışan performansı arasında negatif bir ilişki bulunmuştur. Deprem risk algısı, stres-performans ilişkisine aracılık etmektedir. Deprem riskine ilişkin araştırmalar, deprem riski taşıyan bölgelerdeki kuruluşlara stratejik planlama, afete hazırlık ve stres yönetimi konularında yardımcı olabilir ve çalışan performansını olumlu yönde etkileyebilir.

Keywords

Deprem risk algısı , Algılanan stres , Çalışan performansı , Doğal afetler

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