Asadi, S; Sharghi, A; Mottaki, Z and Salehsedghpour, B (2025) Housing reconstruction after traumatic events: A POE study of Bam housing after the 2003 earthquake, Iran. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 16(1), pp. 57-71. ISSN 1759-5908
Abstract
Purpose: Earthquake stressful events cause many consequences and need for survivors. Housing reconstruction is one of the most urgent needs; due to traumatic experiences, dialectical changes in people–place relationships occur. Design/methodology/approach: The present study uses the Poe method and Q methodology to identify the hidden dimensions of trauma-informed housing reconstruction. A questionnaire with 74 items on the Likert scale was developed based on indicative Poe. It was completed by the purposive sampling method by Bam households. The influential factors in housing reconstruction with a psychological recovery approach were extracted by q-factor analysis in communities with different traumatic experiences. Findings: According to the findings, first, people who had experienced complete home destruction; severe physical injuries; loss of family members and relatives; and were trapped under the earthquake rubble have different place-based needs in housing reconstruction for coping with fears and environmental concerns, protective behaviors, safety perception and as result safety reassurance. Second, regardless of the traumatic experience and losses, reconstruction acceleration and economic-social dignity have a positive effect on the communities' psychological recovery. Originality/value: It is noteworthy that housing reconstruction with a psychological recovery approach has two basic aspects. Although some independent factors of traumatic experiences will be efficient in this approach, it was found that the type of earthquake traumatic experiences will also be effective in the survivors' place-based needs and biases.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | housing reconstruction; poe study; post-earthquake traumatic experiences; psychological recovery |
| Index terms: | injury, questionnaire, Likert scale, methodology, influential factor, bias, housing, Q methodology, reconstruction, recovery, environmental concern, factor analysis, coping, household, earthquake, housing reconstruction, acceleration, purposive sampling, dimension |
| Subjects: | construction type, environmental issues, operations management, research methods, demography, building construction, behavioral psychology, environmental hazards, risk assessment, data collection methods, data analysis and analytics, health monitoring assessment and metrics, post-disaster and reconstruction, probability and distributions, project controls, health conditions and diseases, statistical analysis |
| Topics: | Engineering Principles, Project Management, Health and Safety, Sustainability, Risk Management, Research Practice, Construction Technology, Urban Studies, Time Control |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTA |
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