Abstract:

The purpose; The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of social capital in individual resistance to disasters in university students. The study is important in terms of the lack of social resistance to catastrophes in the non-structualized problems areas of the Turkish catastrophe management. Materials and Methods; The study in which the students of the University of Ege are defined as the universe is selected from a faculty and a profession of high school students. The sample was made up of 240 people. The study used a survey form consisting of 15 questions that measure the individual resistance of students to disasters as a social-demographic characteristics as a data collection tool. The data collected was analyzed using the IBM SPSS (v22) statistical program. In the data analysis, the frequency distribution and percentage used, the difference between the variables was used in the ki-quare test. The findings suggest that 14.6 percent of participants have taken the necessary measures to protect against disasters and reduce the damage, while 21.3 percent believe that their physical living areas are safe enough against disasters. In the individual resistance to disasters, variables such as gender and family income status appear to be effective. While resilient social capital has no direct influence on individual resistance to disasters, the instrument is social capital determinant. The result is that, when the individual’s resistance to disasters is low, especially women’s gender and low economic status are effective, the risk of disasters in sociology can be defined as feminization and poverty, in the same way as the feminization of poverty. Interaction with professional organizations and industry in university students is determining in individual resistance to disasters.

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