Data survey of students behavioral and psychological adaptations in disaster-prone areas of Mount Merapi in Indonesia

This set of data provides the data related to the measurement of behavioral and psychological adaptation on students in disaster-prone areas of Mount Merapi in Indonesia. The survey was conducted online by considering respondents agreement in filling the demography data (4 questions), behavioral adaptation (17 questions) and psychological adaptation (9 questions). The survey was done on March–June 2021. Total respondents were 364 students who were selected through probability-based cluster sampling for schools around disaster-prone areas 1–3 of Mount Merapi eruption. Respondents were from 15 private and state schools at the slope of Mount Merapi (Central Java and Yogyakarta, Indonesia) and categorized as disaster-prone areas of eruption. The survey data were analyzed using multivariate analysis. The data can help educators, researchers or the government to find out students’ preparedness level in dealing with Mount Merapi eruption in the future and to strengthen the integration of educational management disasters in the school curriculum.


a b s t r a c t
This set of data provides the data related to the measurement of behavioral and psychological adaptation on students in disaster-prone areas of Mount Merapi in Indonesia. The survey was conducted online by considering respondents agreement in filling the demography data (4 questions), behavioral adaptation (17 questions) and psychological adaptation (9 questions). The survey was done on March-June 2021. Total respondents were 364 students who were selected through probability-based cluster sampling for schools around disaster-prone areas 1-3 of Mount Merapi eruption. Respondents were from 15 private and state schools at the slope of Mount Merapi (Central Java and Yogyakarta, Indonesia) and categorized as disaster-prone areas of eruption. The survey data were analyzed using multivariate analysis. The data can help educators, researchers or the government to find out students' preparedness level in dealing with Mount Merapi eruption in the future and to strengthen the integration of educational management disasters in the school curriculum. ©

Values of the Data
• Dataset helps to acquire empiric proofs of students' preparedness in dealing with the eruption of Mount Merapi based on their adaptation skills, both behavioral and psychological. • Dataset helps researcher who wants to compare it with other disaster-related researches with the purpose to help students strengthen their endurance in dealing with Mount Merapi eruption. • Dataset may help educators and the government to strengthen the integration of educational management disasters in the Indonesian curriculum to create strong generations.

Data Description
Data in this article informs about the students' level of preparedness in dealing with disaster which is measured through the students' behavioral and psychological adaptation. The survey involved 364 students from 15 different schools in disaster-prone areas (KRB) 1-3 of Mount Merapi. The focus of the data collection consists of three variables; (A) Demography, including name, gender, class, and schools. (B) The variables of behavioral adaptation (PR) include disaster understanding, disaster preparedness, network, disaster communication, participation and policy. The indicators are in the form of 17 questions related to behavioral adaptation. (C) Nine questions related to psychological adaptation (PS) are based on seven indicators such as self-confidence, courage, positive feelings, self-composure, social support, anxiety and stress, and mental readiness. Questionnaire is provided as additional data, while the results of data based on three variables can be seen in the student sheet in the Mendeley section. All the questions used to measure the variables of behavioral and psychological adaptations in this form are by demography data by a Likert scale of 5 interval point (Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree) which can be seen in Table 1 -6 . Table 1 shows the respondents characteristics based on the demography and social economy of the respondents. Table 2 shows the frequency of distribution on behavioral and psychological adaptation question. Tables 3 and 4 show the relations between the demographic characteristics of respondents and the variables of students' behavioral and psychological adaptation in disaster-prone areas of Mount Merapi eruption. Table 5 describes the frequency distribution data for each respondent's answer to the existing question, while Table 6 shows the frequency distribution data and the correlation between the demographic characteristics of the respondents with behavioral and psychological adaptation variables.
The data on Mendeley Data contains a questionnaire and a recapitulation of respondents' answers based on behavioral and psychological adaptation questionnaires in disaster-prone areas of Mount Merapi eruption.

Experimental Design, Materials and Methods
The context of this research is high school students' adaptation skills. Research respondents come from 15 schools around disaster-prone areas 1-3 of the eruption of Mount Merapi (Indonesia) which were selected using probability sampling based on cluster sampling. Respondents from different locations can be divided into each cluster [1] , for example, schools that are categorized as disaster-prone area 1 because of the location that is considered safer and predicted to not get too much damage from the eruption. The use of cluster sampling in this research is according to Adhikari et al. [2] and Pilli-Sihvola et al. [3] that each individual has different skills in adaptation according to the area.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, all schools in Indonesia do online teaching and learning process so the questionnaires were also done using Google Form. The questionnaires were given to the respondents who met the criteria made by the researcher. The questionnaire aims to find out students' preparedness in disaster adaptation based on the indicators of behavioral and psychological adaptation developed by Oakes et al. [4] . Questions related to behavioral adaptation are based on the instrument developed by Al-Amin et al. [5] and Zulch [6] , while questions related to psychological adaptation are based on instruments developed by Zsido et al. [7] and Zulch [6] . 26 questions were presented using a Likert scale 1-5 points from 'strongly disagree' to 'strongly agree'. The responses from the questionnaire were 364 in total and all responses successfully met the criteria for statistics analysis. The characteristics of students' demography        Table 6 Frequency distribution and correlation between the demographic characteristic respondents' and behavioral and psychological adaptation variables.
were analyzed using descriptive statistical analysis with one way ANOVA analysis technique to find out the relations and influences of demography characteristics to behavioral and psychological adaptation skills.

Ethics Statement
Informed consent was obtained from all respondents. The research was done with voluntary agreement from the respondents/students. Aside from that, researcher also made agreements with the parents, teachers, and the headmaster to help the research process to run smoothly and in accordance with existing ethics. The research ethics committee of the Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris provided ethical approval with reference number 2021-0300-01.

Declaration of Competing Interest
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Data Availability
Data for measuring disaster adaptation among students in disaster-prone areas of Mount Merapi (Original data) (Mendeley Data).