A Study on the Factors Affecting the Resilience of Community after Disaster

This study aims to identify factors influencing community resilience as perceived by disaster-affected individuals and to explore strategies for strengthening community resilience. Community resilience represents a critical form of social capital necessary for local or national communities to recover from crises such as natural disasters. Data were drawn from the 2022 Disaster Recovery Status Survey conducted by the National Disaster Management Research Institute, which targeted individuals affected by natural disasters and wildfires in South Korea between 2019 and 2021. For this study, we analyzed responses from 3,016 research subjects. SPSS 25.0 was used for frequency and correlation analyses to examine relationships among demographic and key variables in the data. A multiple regression analysis was conducted to assess the research model, with social support, post-disaster social experiences, satisfaction with relief services, and satisfaction with local government disaster responses as independent variables, and community resilience as the dependent variable. The analysis revealed that social support, local government disaster response, post-disaster cooperation experiences, and satisfaction with relief services positively and significantly influenced community resilience. Based on these findings, we propose practical approaches within community welfare to enhance community resilience in the aftermath of disasters.