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Fear of crime and quality of life

The purpose of the present study was to explore the relationship between fear of crime and two well-being index (Personal Well-being - satisfaction with material status, health, achievement, relationships, safety, community, future security, spirituality) and National Well-being (NWI: satisfaction with economy, environment, social conditions, government, business, national security). Fear of crime was operationalized as cognitive component (feelings of safety) in three specific situation (at streets in your neighborhood at night, at your home at night, at night in public transport) and in general. In addition we measured perception of neighborhood incivilities and beliefs about national crime trends as previously confirmed important predictors of fear of crime. Analyzed data were gathered by face- to- face interviews within a large scale public opinion research conducted by Institute of social sciences Ivo Pilar in October/November 2008, on nationally representative probabilistic sample of 4000 adults from 200 different sample points (response rate 50%). Hierarchical regression analyses were used to examine the relationship between fear of crime and well being index, with sociodemografic variables as covariates. Results are discusses with regards to meaning of similarities and differences in multivariate association between fear of crime with personal and national well-being.

fear of crime; well-being index

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