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Patterns of Giving and Receiving Help During Severe Winter Conditions: A Research Note
Author(s) -
NEAL DAVID M.,
PERRY JOSEPH B.,
GREEN KEN,
HAWKINS RANDOLPH
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7717.1988.tb00689.x
Subject(s) - directory , rural area , suicide prevention , injury prevention , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , occupational safety and health , geography , medical emergency , medicine , demography , socioeconomics , psychology , gerontology , sociology , computer science , pathology , operating system
Severe winter conditions and blizzards may cause persons to be stranded, unable to move from one place to another. Being stranded under such conditions can be life‐threatening and often requires help. This is a study of giving and receiving help among people who were stranded during severe winter conditions and blizzards in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA and the surrounding countryside in 1976–1977. Mail questionnaire data were collected from the Bowling Green, Ohio telephone directory which included listings from both rural and urban areas. The family, followed by friends and neighbors, were most important in the giving and receiving of help. There was little difference between the responses of rural and urban residents. Propinquity was found to be an important intervening variable.