This study inves­ti­gates the extent to which risk per­cep­tion regard­ing dis­as­ters among indi­vid­u­als liv­ing in slum areas inter­re­lates with their mate­r­i­al well-being in deter­min­ing their place attach­ment, which may affect their house­hold resilience. To assess this, we take rel­e­vant mea­sures from pre­vi­ous stud­ies and run a con­fir­ma­to­ry fac­tor analy­sis to test their valid­i­ty. All the mea­sures are shown to have a good fit with the data.

Our find­ings reveal a sig­nif­i­cant medi­a­tion­al rela­tion­ship between mea­sures of mate­r­i­al well-being and house­hold resilience through place attach­ment although, coun­ter­in­tu­itive­ly, the medi­at­ed rela­tion­ship between sub­jec­tive mate­r­i­al well-being and house­hold resilience was neg­a­tive. The medi­at­ed rela­tion­ship is only valid for the sub­jec­tive mate­r­i­al well-being pre­dic­tor and among those with a high lev­el of risk per­cep­tion.

These find­ings sug­gest that risk per­cep­tion deter­mines the way an individual’s sub­jec­tive mate­r­i­al well-being pre­dicts their attach­ment to their liv­ing place, which relates to their house­hold resilience.