2018, Vol.14, No.1

Crisisonomy 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.64

pISSN : 2466-1198 / eISSN : 2466-1201
https://journal.kci.go.kr/cemtp

This study is concerned with government responsiveness and accountability during the MERS crisis in Korea. In this context, we explain the responsiveness of the government from technical, administrative and institutional perspectives. Then we discuss crisis communication during the outbreak, focusing on why the Korean government failed to manage at the institutional level. One of the main reasons of the failure was found to be insufficiency in technical and managerial responsiveness. For example, government agencies did not use crisis communication strategies or pre-event planning in technical and managerial level. A more fundamental reason, however, would be that there was very little emphasis on public health across government organizations. More specifically, governmental expenditure was allocated more to social welfare than public health in Korea.

We were wondering about what changes a catastrophic disaster brings about to people and how such changes can affect the damaged areas and the surrounding environment. In particular, we focused on various attributes of individuals such as experience, emotion and belief, and tried to examine their effects on the role of local councils. According to the analysis results, disaster experience is not restricted to change the psychological state of the individual, but is powerful to change the local institution as an aggregate. Their ideological orientation was also a major factor influencing the role of local councils. Not only the attribution but also the experience of disaster was found to have a statistically significant relationship with the role of local councils. Disasters must be understood as the mechanisms by which individuals change their beliefs and emotions and act as a veto group due to uncertain and incomplete information and anxiety and negative emotions caused by poor government response.

The purpose of this study is to provide a clear understanding of the concept and the theoretical basis of the emotional competence of nursing college students who will take the lead in crisis management in the hospital. In order to understand the emotional competence of nursing students, we used the concept analysis method of Walker and Avant (2005) through various literature review. The main attributes of emotional competence among nursing students include (1) self-awareness and self-management, (2) communication with others, and (3) motivation for study, while the outcomes of their emotional competence consist of (1) empathic understanding, (2) harmonious interpersonal relationship, and (3) improvement in academic achievement. We need to develop a tool to measure the emotional competence of nursing students based on all the attributes revealed in this study.