[Effects of residents' place identity on their anxiety about a flood and coping strategies].

A questionnaire survey was carried out among people living in a same river basin to examine determinants of anxiety about a flood and flood-coping practices. The results indicated that flood experience and objective danger in the environment play an important role in determining flood anxiety, while flood experience and place identity are deeply related to the coping practices. This implies that the factor structures are slightly different between occurrence of anxiety about a flood and adoption of the coping strategies. It is suggested facilitating flood-coping practices is possible even if the anxiety is not purposely strengthened among people.