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How Specific Is Fear of Crime? A Situational Approach to Comparing Fear of Crime with Generalized Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Fear of Injury, and Fear of the Unknown

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Online study compares fear of crime with generalized and social anxiety, suggesting distinct characteristics.

Fear of crime can be distinguished from other fears, indicating it is an independent construct.
The study found moderate to high correlations between situational measures of various fears.
Dispositional measures of fears correlated more strongly with their situational counterparts, supporting specific classification.
The findings highlight that dispositional measures of fear of crime are effective assessment tools.

Seeler et al. (2025) studied this question.

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