The Intersectionality of Community Trust, Disaster Risk Perception, and Social Vulnerability in Life According to the Constructivist Perspective of Risk Perception

This study is based on the awareness of the problem that disaster risk perception is reduced to an isolated individual's problem and decontextualized due to unexplained in social relationships, and that it has not been able to comprehensively discuss how disaster risk perception relates to ultimate well-being, such as life satisfaction. Accordingly, the structural relationship between community trust, disaster risk perception, and life satisfaction is analyzed in an integrated manner, and in particular, whether social vulnerability regulates the relationship between the three variables is analyzed through controlled mediating model analysis. The results show that community trust has a negative significant effect on disaster risk perception, but this relationship is not moderated by social vulnerability. The impact of disaster risk perception on life satisfaction is significantly moderated by social vulnerability, and the higher the social vulnerability, the greater the negative impact of disaster risk perception on life satisfaction, and when social vulnerability is low, disaster risk perception does not have a significant effect on life satisfaction. Finally, community trust has a positively significant effect on life satisfaction, and the degree of influence is significantly lower as social vulnerability increases. These results suggest that the more socially vulnerable the contradictory relationship in which disaster risk perception, a resource for disaster response, impairs life satisfaction, is strengthened, and the higher the social vulnerability, the more life satisfaction is threatened through multiple channels.