@article{ref1,
title="Health, fear of crime and psychosocial functioning in older people",
journal="Journal of health psychology",
year="2000",
author="McKee, Kevin J. and Milner, Caroline",
volume="5",
number="4",
pages="473-486",
abstract="Fear of crime is thought to limit social activity in older people. Sixty older people, recruited via day centres, were given questionnaire-based interviews. A series of questions produced two scales of crime awareness and a scale of perceived crime prevalence. Fear of crime was operationalized through a catastrophizing technique, and by a single-item measure of perceived safety. Physical health, mental health and psychosocial limitation were assessed. Physical health was found to moderate a relationship between crime awareness and fear of crime. In multivariate models, fear of crime was not a significant predictor of psychosocial limitation, which was predicted by physical and mental health. Implications of the findings for models of fear of crime and health psychology are discussed.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1359-1053",
doi="10.1177/135910530000500406",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/135910530000500406"
}