Gadjah Mada Journal of Psychology (GamaJoP)
Vol 2, No 1 (2016)

Perilaku Menolong Relawan Spontan Bencana Alam

Masitha Hanum Utomo (Fakultas Psikologi Universitas Gadjah Mada)
Wenty Marina Minza (Fakultas Psikologi Universitas Gadjah Mada)



Article Info

Publish Date
02 Jan 2018

Abstract

The vulnerable conditions of Indonesia, especially Yogyakarta, to natural disastersled a lot of volunteers who want to help the survivor. Many of volunteers joined the socialcommunity or formal organization, but many of them do not belong to any social communityor organization and does not have the ability to handle the condition of natural disaster stillhelp the victims. These individuals referred as spontaneous volunteers. The aim of this studyis to determine the helping behavior conducted by spontaneous volunteers. The approachused in this study is qualitative specifically phenomenology. Data was collected by a semi-structured in-depth interview. Informants of this study consisted of three individuals, two ofthem was volunteered when the eruption of Mount Merapi occurred in 2010, and the otherone was volunteered in Banjarnegara’s landslide in 2014. Result showed that there arechanges of helping behavior from spontaneous to formal planned form of helping. There arealso several factors that encourage or inhibit their helping behavior.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

gamajop

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Subject

Education Environmental Science Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice Public Health Social Sciences Other

Description

Gadjah Mada Journal of Psychology (GamaJoP) ISSN 2407-7798 is an open-access journal disseminating empirical research on current topics in the broad area of psychology (clinical, social, developmental, educational or Industrial and Organizational) with a behavioral, cognitive, positive psychology ...