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Spatial Correlates of Perceived Safety: Natural Surveillance and Incivilities in Bayan Baru, Malaysia

Urban Science
Perceived safety strongly shapes how residents use and experience their neighborhoods, yet evidence on how spatial and social factors interact in rapidly urbanizing Asian cities remains limited.
Aldrin Abdullah, Nurfarahin Roslan, Massoomeh Hedayati Marzbali, Mohammad Javad Maghsoodi Tilaki   +3 more
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Assessing urban and rural neighborhood characteristics using audit and GIS data: derivation and reliability of constructs

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2009
Background Measures to assess neighborhood environments are needed to better understand the salient features that may enhance outdoor physical activities, such as walking and bicycling for transport or leisure.
Laraia Barbara A, Messer Lynne, Herring Amy H, Sotres-Alvarez Daniela, Evenson Kelly R, Rodríguez Daniel A   +5 more
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Do you Feel Safe in the Urban Space? From Perceptions to Associated Variables

Anuario de Psicología Jurídica, 2021
This study aims to provide answers to the following questions: Do you feel safe at Historic Centre of Porto (HCP)? Do you think that crime is increasing? What are the most and less frequent crimes? And the most feared crimes?
Vanessa Azevedo, Ana Sani, Laura M. Nunes, Daniela Paulo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Associations of adult physical activity with perceived safety and police-recorded crime: the Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2012
Background Due to the inconsistent findings of prior studies, we explored the association of perceived safety and police-recorded crime measures with physical activity.
Evenson Kelly R, Block Richard, Roux Ana V, McGinn Aileen P, Wen Fang, Rodríguez Daniel A   +5 more
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Satisfaction with the Police: Perceptions and Related Variables from an Urban Community Sample

Social Sciences, 2022
This quantitative, correlational, and transversal study was performed with a sample of 482 participants from an urban community at the Historic Centre of Porto (HCP).
Ana Isabel Sani, Vanessa Azevedo, Daniela Paulo, Mariana Magalhães, Laura M. Nunes   +4 more
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Associations between the physical environment and park-based physical activity: A systematic review

Journal of Sport and Health Science, 2019
Background: With an increase in the evidence for the associations between park-based physical activity (PA) and physical environments (especially park and neighborhood environments), researchers face an important challenge in interpreting and summarizing
Ru Zhang, Hagen Wulff, Yanping Duan, Petra Wagner   +3 more
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Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
wiley   +1 more source

Hidden Human Capital Risks to Sustainable Logistics Systems: A Moderated Mediation Model of Overqualification, Abusive Supervision, and Workplace Ostracism

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how perceived overqualification (POQ) becomes a source of work alienation by focusing on interpersonal dynamics in the workplace. Drawing on relational and power‐based perspectives, we propose that abusive supervision serves as a key mechanism linking POQ to work alienation, while workplace ostracism conditions the strength
Ahmet Hakan Özkan
wiley   +1 more source

How does perceived risk mediate associations between perceived safety and parental restriction of adolescents’ physical activity in their neighborhood?

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2012
Background There is evidence that adolescence is a critical period of decline in physical activity. However, adolescents may have limited opportunities to be physically active outdoors if their parents are concerned about neighborhood safety and restrict
Carver Alison, Timperio Anna, Hesketh Kylie, Crawford David   +3 more
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Factors associated with perception of insecurity: the case of Chilpancingo, Guerrero

Revista de Psicología y Ciencias del Comportamiento de la Unidad Académica de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales, 2020
This paper analyzes the cumulative perception of insecurity, defined as the locations where people feel insecure due to crime, in the areas assisted by the National Crime Prevention Program (PRONAPRED) in the municipality of ...
Jorge Luis Triana Sánchez
doaj   +1 more source