ABSTRACT

Survivalists are individuals who stockpile resources to prepare for a wide-scale disaster or societal collapse, generally at a degree well beyond that of the average person. To date, an in-depth understanding of how survivalists perceive and respond to terrorism risk remains lacking in the research literature. This study applies Protection Management Theory (PMT) to address how perceived severity of a future terrorist attack, perceived risk of a future terrorist attack, and perceived effectiveness of self-protection relate to self-protective action and self-identification as a survivalist. Data were collected with a web survey administered to a nationwide sample of 520 adults in the U.S. Only higher perceived effectiveness of self-protection was associated with both a greater number of self-protective actions taken and a greater likelihood of identifying as a survivalist. The perceived seriousness of a terrorist attack occurring was only associated with identifying as a survivalist. Respondents’ reasoning indicated that a greater percentage of survivalists than others identified uncertainty of risk as motivation for their actions. Survivalists were less likely to mention fear in their answers than other respondents.

摘要

生存主义者是指储存资源以应对大规模灾难或社会崩溃的个人，其程度通常远远超出普通人。迄今为止，研究文献仍然缺乏对生存主义者如何看待和应对恐怖主义风险的深入了解。本研究应用保护管理理论（PMT）来解决对未来恐怖袭击的感知严重性、对未来恐怖袭击的感知风险以及对自我保护有效性的感知与自我保护行动和生存主义者的自我认同之间的关系。数据是通过对美国全国 520 名成年人进行的网络调查收集的 只有更高的自我保护有效性感知与采取更多的自我保护行动以及被认定为生存主义者的可能性更大相关。恐怖袭击发生的严重性仅与生存主义者的身份有关。受访者的推理表明，与其他人相比，更多的生存主义者认为风险的不确定性是他们行动的动机。与其他受访者相比，生存主义者在回答中不太可能提及恐惧。