Caterina G. Roman , Ruohui Chen , Loki Natarajan , Terry L. Conway , Christina Patch , Ralph B. Taylor , Kelli L. Cain , Scott Roesch , Marc A. Adams , Brian E. Saelens , Abby C. King , Lawrence D. Frank , Karen Glanz , James F. Sallis
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It is widely assumed crime and related concerns, including neighborhood incivilities and fear of crime, are barriers to physical activity (PA). Past studies reveal mixed evidence. Studies of impacts for crime-protective factors are less common but have similarly mixed results. This paper evaluates a comprehensive transdisciplinary conceptual framework of cross-sectional associations between crime-related perceptions and reported minutes/week of recreational walking inside and outside one's home neighborhood. Safe and Fit Environments Study (SAFE) recruited and surveyed 2302 participants from adolescents to older adults from four U.S. metropolitan areas. A zero-inflated model estimated two components of each outcome: whether the respondent walked, and minutes/week walked. Correlates of recreational walking were location-specific, differing based on walking location. Fear of crime, risk evaluation, victimization, and incivilities were not consistently associated with walking for recreation inside one's neighborhood. People with crime concerns about their own neighborhoods, however, more commonly walked for recreation outside their neighborhoods. Protective crime-related perceptions that seldom have been studied in relation to PA, such as street efficacy (i.e., the perceived ability to avoid and manage danger), were strongly associated with recreational walking in both locations, indicating the additional heuristic value of the SAFE conceptual framework.
Crime-related perceptions and walking for recreation: Evaluating a conceptual model.
人们普遍认为,犯罪和相关问题,包括邻里不和谐和对犯罪的恐惧,是体育活动(PA)的障碍。过去的研究显示了不同的证据。有关犯罪保护因素影响的研究并不常见,但结果同样参差不齐。本文评估了一个综合的跨学科概念框架,该框架涉及与犯罪有关的认知与所报告的在家庭邻里内外每周娱乐性步行分钟数之间的横截面关联。安全与适宜环境研究(Safe and Fit Environments Study,SAFE)招募并调查了来自美国四个大都市地区的 2302 名青少年至老年人。零膨胀模型估算了每项结果的两个组成部分:受访者是否步行以及步行分钟/周。娱乐性步行的相关因素因步行地点而异。对犯罪的恐惧、风险评估、受害情况和不文明行为与在自己社区内进行娱乐性步行的关系并不一致。然而,对自己居住的社区有犯罪担忧的人更常在社区外散步休闲。很少有人研究过与休闲娱乐有关的犯罪相关保护性认知,如街道效能(即避免和管理危险的认知能力),在这两个地点都与休闲步行密切相关,这表明 "SAFE "概念框架具有额外的启发价值。犯罪相关认知与休闲步行:评估概念模型。