Open AccessAssociation Between Fear of Crime and Mental Health and Physical Functioning
Author(s) -
Mai Stafford,
Tarani Chandola,
Michael Marmot
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2006.097154
Subject(s) - fear of crime , mental health , psychology , depression (economics) , causality (physics) , association (psychology) , public health , psychiatry , occupational safety and health , clinical psychology , gerontology , medicine , social psychology , physics , nursing , quantum mechanics , economics , psychotherapist , macroeconomics , pathology
Studies have reported an inverse association between fear of crime and subjective mental and physical health. We investigated the direction of causality and the curtailment of physical and social activities as a possible mediating pathway.