Broadening an understanding of problem gambling: The lifestyle consumption community of sports betting

Gordon, Ross; Gurrieri, Lauren; Chapman, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.03.016

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“…Many of these studies are country-specific, with great preponderance of research coming from Australia (Deans et al 2016a;Deans et al 2016b;Gordon et al 2015;Hing et al 2017a;Hing et al 2016;Sproston et al 2015;Woolley 2003). Cross-sectional studies of Australian sports bettors have identified risk factors for gambling problems such as being male, young, never married, living alone or in a group household, and with higher level education .…”

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Internet-Based Structural Characteristics of Sports Betting and Problem Gambling Severity: Is There a Relationship?

López-González

Estévez

Griffiths

2018

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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With the adoption and popularization of internet-based platforms, sports betting has introduced new functionalities that transform the design of its products and therefore the way bettors interact with them. This study aims to explore the association between the use of new structural characteristics of online betting and gambling severity. Five characteristics are examined here: (i) live in-play betting; (ii) cash out feature use (as example of in-play betting in-built features); (iii) fantasy sports gaming; (iv) location of betting; and (v) device or platform used to make bets. A cohort (N = 659) of Spanish gamblers who had bet on sports during the previous year was recruited through an online survey. The results suggested that those bettors scoring higher on gambling problems also utilized more often such new structural characteristics, in a proportion not explained only by their higher overall gambling activity. Mobile betting was especially frequent among problem gamblers.Keywords Sports betting . Gambling . Internet . Fantasy . In-play . Mobile phone gamblingThe prevalence of online sports betting has increased in many different jurisdictions over the past few years (Gainsbury 2014;Rodríguez et al. 2017). Betting on sports amounts to 37% of Int J Ment Health Addiction

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“…Research into online sports betting, as opposed to more traditional forms of offline betting, suggests that online sports bettors perceive their gambling as more determined by their own skills, knowledge, and analysis and less by chance or luck (Gordon et al 2015).…”

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Internet-Based Structural Characteristics of Sports Betting and Problem Gambling Severity: Is There a Relationship?

López-González

Estévez

Griffiths

2018

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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“…In terms of situational factors, there has also been a substantial increase in the proliferation of marketing and advertising for online sports betting which is also likely to contribute to the higher proportion of impulsive sports bets made online (Hing et al 2017;Sproston et al 2015). The information conveyed in such promotional material emphasises the ease of access and value for money of online sports betting (Hing et al 2015;Sproston et al 2015); and its propagation has led to online sports betting to be normalised and perceived as an everyday behaviour, especially among young adults (Deans et al 2016;Gordon et al 2015). Promotional sports betting material and inducements delivered via direct marketing such as email and SMS are believed to precipitate impulsive sports betting online (Hing et al 2017).…”

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Transformation of Sports Betting into a Rapid and Continuous Gambling Activity: a Grounded Theoretical Investigation of Problem Sports Betting in Online Settings

Parke

Parke²

2019

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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There is an increasing trend for online sports betting to be identified in gambling treatment services as the principal gambling activity that leads to harmful consequences. The structure of sports betting in online settings has changed extensively in the last 5 years in response to developing information technology, and these changes appear to have increased the inherent risk associated with online sports betting. There is a current need to understand disordered patterns of sports betting in online settings, in order to commence the development of strategies to identify and, where possible, mitigate harm. Therefore, a systematic grounded theory study was conducted, utilising behavioural data and in-depth interviews with a sample of 19 online sports bettors who met the criteria for problem gambling, to produce a substantive outline of the salient sources of harmful participation in modern online sports betting. The core category to emerge was an Online Sports Betting Loop that was facilitated by new structural features of modern online sports betting such as live betting, cash out, micro-event betting and instant depositing. In addition, participants indicated that the immediate accessibility and the ubiquity of online sports betting marketing made it challenging to control sports betting involvement. The emergent findings demonstrate that attention must be directed towards creating mechanisms to reduce patterns of continuous online sports betting by increasing breaks in play in the structure of the activity and enabling customers to restrict usage of features that are associated with disordered play, such as live betting.

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“…In the present study, participants offered new insight about the mechanisms of peer influence and normality construction in the workplace. Considering specially the male-dominant environment that many of the employed participants worked, betting could be seen as a method of socialisation, which includes rites of passage and bragging rights, similar to the conduct of Australian bettors in public houses (Gordon & Chapman, 2014;Gordon, Gurrieri, & Chapman, 2015).…”

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Can Positive Social Perception and Reduced Stigma be a Problem in Sports Betting? A Qualitative Focus Group Study with Spanish Sports Bettors Undergoing Treatment for Gambling Disorder

2018

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The way society perceives problem gambling, and its effects on how problem gamblers perceive themselves have significant consequences on the wellbeing of people experiencing gambling disorder. Associated with social perception, stigma and other social perception-related features have an impact on the way problem gamblers identify themselves, seek for help, and recover. However, not all gambling types are identically perceived by the society. The present paper examines the case of the social perception of sports betting in the context of Spain. A total of 43 male sports bettors undergoing treatment for gambling disorder were interviewed within seven focus group discussions. Using a qualitative thematic analysis technique, participants reported two fundamental characteristics of sports betting social perception: (1) the absence of negative connotations associated with sports betting comparative to other gambling forms; and (2) the presence of positive connotations that sanitised sports betting as a harmless practice. The study reports aspects such as the lack of stereotypes, the low-involvement of betting as a product, the novelty of online sports betting, the social construction of the normal bettor, and the workplace gambling normalisation as elements that could lead to an increase in gambling-related harm. This is the first study to explore the social perception of sports betting in a subgroup of problem sports bettors and suggests that policymakers should be cognizant of these perceptions in order to inform responsible gambling regulation .

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Broadening an understanding of problem gambling: The lifestyle consumption community of sports betting

Cited by 84 publications

References 40 publications

Internet-Based Structural Characteristics of Sports Betting and Problem Gambling Severity: Is There a Relationship?

Internet-Based Structural Characteristics of Sports Betting and Problem Gambling Severity: Is There a Relationship?

Transformation of Sports Betting into a Rapid and Continuous Gambling Activity: a Grounded Theoretical Investigation of Problem Sports Betting in Online Settings

Can Positive Social Perception and Reduced Stigma be a Problem in Sports Betting? A Qualitative Focus Group Study with Spanish Sports Bettors Undergoing Treatment for Gambling Disorder

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