RT Article
T1 Coping with criminal victimization and fear of crime: the protective role of accommodative self-regulation
JF Legal and criminological psychology
VO 22
IS 2
SP 359
OP 377
A1 Rühs, Farina
A2 Greve, Werner 1959-
A2 Kappes, Cathleen 1981-
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1846829399
AB Purpose. The protective role of accommodative coping in mitigating possible aversive consequences of criminal victimization and fear of crime was investigated across different types of criminal offences and age groups. Methods. Two hundred and forty-six participants aged 15–77 years participated in a cross-sectional, Internet-based questionnaire study. They provided information on their experiences of criminal victimization, depressive symptoms, fear of crime (FC), and accommodative coping. Results. Multiple regression analyses showed that accommodative coping had a moderating (buffering) effect, both on the positive relationship between criminal victimization and fear of crime and on the positive relationship between fear of crime and victims’ depressive symptoms. The greater the tendency of accommodative coping was, the weaker were the relationships between criminal victimization and fear of crime, and between fear of crime and depressive symptoms. Conclusions. The results indicate that accommodative processes could indeed facilitate adaptive coping with criminal victimization and could, at least for some of the assumed negative psychological consequences, have a protective effect.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 373-377
NO Gesehen am 30.05.2023
NO First published: 06 April 2017
K1 criminal victimiziation
K1 Coping
K1 Accommodation
K1 flexible goal adjustment
K1 Fear of crime
K1 Depressive symptoms
DO 10.1111/lcrp.12106