Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Prior Deployment Experience, and Cognitive Functioning Levels of Disaster Response Tabletop Exercise Participants

• In Event: D&D - Training

Short Description

This study contributes to the limited literature related to the use of tabletop exercises as an effective training method. By investigating the relationship among perceived levels of cognitive functioning of disaster response tabletop exercise participants, perceived levels of self-efficacy, and prior deployment experience, exercise planners can potentially improve disaster response tabletop exercises in the future, providing a forum for high level critical thinking and cognitive functioning and increasing participants’ self-efficacy beliefs regarding disaster response.

Authors

• Nadia Taylor, University of West Florida

• Byron Havard, University of West Florida

• Holly Ellis, University of West Florida