TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - Health, fear of crime and psychosocial functioning in older people
JO  - Journal of health psychology
A1  - McKee, Kevin J.
A1  - Milner, Caroline
SP  - 473
EP  - 486
VL  - 5
IS  - 4
N2  - 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> 
LA  - en
SN  - 1359-1053
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/135910530000500406
ID  - ref1
ER  -