TABLE 3—

Relationship Between Fear of Crime and Social and Physical Activities Among Civil Servants Aged 50–75 Years: Whitehall II Study, London, England, 2002–2004

	Mean Fear of Crime,a No.	P
Visit relatives		<.05
Never	2.84 (1754)
Sometimes	2.98 (4124)
Often	3.04 (673)
Visit friends		<.001
Never	3.10 (540)
Sometimes	2.92 (3600)
Often	2.78 (2567)
Participation in social activities, tertile		<.001
Lowest	3.21 (2371)
Middle	2.85 (2005)
Highest	2.80 (2341)
Time spent walking outside, tertile		>.1
Lowest	3.05 (2033)
Middle	2.92 (2377)
Highest	2.91 (2203)
Participation in vigorous activity, weekly		<.001
None	3.00 (3402)
1–2 occasions	2.91 (1541)
≥ 3 occasions	2.80 (1353)

Note. See “Methods” section for details on social and physical activity measures.

^aParticipants were asked how worried they were about the following events in their neighborhood: home being broken into, being mugged or robbed, car being stolen or things being stolen from the car, being raped. Possible responses to each item were very worried (score 3), fairly worried (2), not very worried (1), or not worried at all (0), and these were summed to create a fear scale ranging from 0 to 12.