Exploring the relationship between lifestyle components and fear of victimization(case of study: women of Zanjan city)

fear of being victimized or feeling of social insecurity, due to the social concerns of the individual or society regarding being victimized or threatened by insecure factors. The main aim of the research is to study the sociological relationship between lifestyle and fear of victimization (feeling of social insecurity) among women in Zanjan city.

The method of the current research is a (quantitative) survey, the tool is a questionnaire. The sample size is equal to 384 people selected using Cochran's formula and randomly distributed cluster sampling, and the reliability of the indicators is estimated to be above 0.7.

The results of the research show that there is a significant relationship between religious (0.415), traditional (-0.226), modern (0.308), sports (-0.315) and risky (0.562) lifestyles with the fear of victimization. Finally, the regression model indicates that the adjusted coefficient of determination is equal to 0.214.

According to the results of the research, lifestyle plays an important role in people's feelings of restlessness, anxiety, and worry about the environment in which they live. Based on this, it is necessary to improve the lifestyle (from the perspective of social welfare), promote the native lifestyle (Islamic, compatible with social norms) and confront the prevalence of lifestyle (unhealthy, dangerous, abnormal and incompatible with the society's culture) to reduce the fear of victimization. .