PMID- 31718384
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20211124
LR  - 20211124
IS  - 1552-6518 (Electronic)
IS  - 0886-2605 (Linking)
VI  - 36
IP  - 21-22
DP  - 2021 Nov
TI  - Perceptions of Fear, Likelihood of Victimization, and Confidence About Dangerous 
      Situations Among University Women in Poland.
PG  - 10660-10685
LID - 10.1177/0886260519888190 [doi]
AB  - Polish women have not been studied in regard to fear, likelihood, or confidence 
      about dangerous situations, nor has there been an instrument to measure those 
      perceptions. The purpose of the study was fourfold: first, to present the Polish 
      translation and validation of the Perception of Dangerous Situations Scale 
      (PDSS-P) and second, to assess Polish women's perceived fear, likelihood, and 
      confidence about dangerous situations using the PDSS-P (41 items). The third 
      purpose was to determine to what degree the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES) 
      and/or the Hope for Success Scale (KNS) correlated with any of the three 
      subscales of the PDSS-P. The fourth purpose was to determine the congruence of 
      the PDSS-P to the original PDSS. Two other tools (GSES and KNS) were administered 
      to determine concurrent validity with the PDSS. A sample of 208 women aged 19 to 
      27 years (M = 21.04, SD = 1.88) participated in the study. Five factors were 
      determined for each subscale, similar to the original version of the PDSS. Women 
      reported they were more afraid of being raped by a stranger than being murdered. 
      Their estimation of the likelihood of some serious events occurring was not 
      congruent with statistical realities. The women thought the least likely events 
      to happen to them in the next year would be being raped or beaten by someone they 
      know, or being held prisoner by someone who wanted to murder them. Confidence to 
      manage dangerous situations was low in cases of being raped by strangers or known 
      people, being kidnapped, or being attacked. The GSES and KNS provided useful 
      information, in that they did not measure the same constructs as the PDSS-P.
FAU - Lickiewicz, Jakub
AU  - Lickiewicz J
AD  - Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
FAU - Hughes, Patricia Paulsen
AU  - Hughes PP
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3342-9749
AD  - Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA.
FAU - Salapa, Kinga
AU  - Salapa K
AD  - Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
FAU - Tychmanowicz, Anna
AU  - Tychmanowicz A
AD  - Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland.
FAU - Makara-Studzinska, Marta
AU  - Makara-Studzinska M
AD  - Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20191113
PL  - United States
TA  - J Interpers Violence
JT  - Journal of interpersonal violence
JID - 8700910
SB  - IM
MH  - *Crime Victims
MH  - Fear
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Perception
MH  - Poland
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - *Universities
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - General Self-Efficacy Scale
OT  - Hope for Success Scale
OT  - Perceptions of Dangerous Situations Scale
OT  - fear of crime
OT  - risk
OT  - safety
OT  - security
OT  - self-efficacy
EDAT- 2019/11/14 06:00
MHDA- 2021/11/25 06:00
CRDT- 2019/11/14 06:00
PHST- 2019/11/14 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/11/25 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2019/11/14 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1177/0886260519888190 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Interpers Violence. 2021 Nov;36(21-22):10660-10685. doi: 
      10.1177/0886260519888190. Epub 2019 Nov 13.