Bewältigung krimineller Opfererfahrungen: Entwicklungsfolgen und Entwicklungsregulation

Greve, Werner; Hellmers, Sabine; Kappes, Cathleen

doi:10.5771/9783845239781-263

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“…In particular, a prospective, longitudinal study would be advantageous as it would enable measurements of fear of crime, depressive symptoms (and other psychological variables examining the respondents' psychological well-being), coping resources and victims' experiences of crime (including the distress subjectively felt) to be made over time, and ideally, for part of the sample, before the first experience of crime, too. For part of the sample to randomly be the victim of a criminal offence during the survey period, the sample ought to be relatively large and the survey period must be sufficiently long (Greve, Hellmers, & Kappes 2012). However, this is the only way to control the confounding issues described above and to verify the statements on potential causal directionalities empirically.…”

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Coping with criminal victimization and fear of crime: The protective role of accommodative self‐regulation

Rühs

Greve

Kappes

2017

Legal Criminol Psychol

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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.

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