Life satisfaction and happiness: discussing the impact of fear of crime and victimization
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/24647055.2018.2" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/24647055.2018.2</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/24647055.2018.2" target="_blank" >10.14712/24647055.2018.2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Life satisfaction and happiness: discussing the impact of fear of crime and victimization
Original language description
Subjective well-being is usually studied with respect to marital and occupational status, income or subjective health. Conversely, research examining the relationship between this phenomenon and crime related factors is still relatively limited. This study therefore aims to extent the current knowledge in this area. Using data from the fifth wave of the European Social Survey for the Czech Republic, in which 2386 respondents participated, we conduct a hierarchical regression analysis to find out to what extent victimization experience and fear of crime influence life satisfaction and happiness of Czechs. The results of the analysis reveal a direct relationship between fear of crime and subjective well-being. On the contrary, victimization affects life satisfaction and happiness indirectly via the fear of crime. Surprisingly, a decrease in life satisfaction is greater for fearful men than fearful women, whereas there are no gender differences regarding the fear of crime – happiness link.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LM2015066" target="_blank" >LM2015066: Český národní uzel ESS (European Social Survey)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Philosophica et Historica
ISSN
0567-8293
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Volume of the periodical
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Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
23-37
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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