Author(s)

Ming Cao ¹, Keke Wei ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Public Policy & Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

Corresponding Author

Ming Cao

ABSTRACT

Safety perception is the psychological need that people desire stability and security. Enhancing the public's sense of security is an effective way to improve the overall level of national happiness, and is also an important guarantee for achieving social stability. Based on the fear of crime model and social psychology theory, this paper constructs an evaluation model of influencing factors of female public safety perception, obtains 821 valid sample data of female residents through questionnaire survey, and establishes a multiple linear regression model of influencing factors of female residents public safety perception. The results show that age, income level and women's public safety perception have positive changes. The level of education has a negative effect on women's public safety perception. Occupational type is related to women's public safety perception, but marital status is not. Media reports on negative news are negatively correlated with women's public security. The public security situation, the order of the residential area and the quality of police work are positively correlated with women's public safety perception. Based on this, this paper proposes to enhance the public safety perception of female residents from three aspects: adopting differentiated security promotion strategies, standardizing the communication order of network media, and innovating new modes of police-citizen cooperation.

KEYWORDS

Urban Female Residents; Public Safety Perception; Network Risk; Risk Perception

CITE THIS PAPER

Ming Cao, Keke Wei, The Influence of Internet Communication and Social Order on Urban Women's Public Safety Perception. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2024) Vol. 6: 71-79. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2024.060510.

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