Recreational Gambling: Young People's Gambling Participation in Rural Australia

Fabiansson, Charlotte

doi:10.1080/13676260600805689

Cited by 13 publications

(11 citation statements)

References 25 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Their age also likely explains why the probability of poker machine gambling was not higher. Of course older family members may have facilitated their gambling on some activities (e.g., Fabiansson, 2006). They also indicated that they spent the most and had the highest problem levels.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do gambling activity patterns predict gambling problems? A latent class analysis of gambling forms among Australian youth

Boldero

Bell

Moore

2010

International Gambling Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Although gambling frequency and easy access to gambling are predictive of gambling problems among young people, little is known about their patterns of gambling activities. The current study investigated the gambling patterns of a large sample of youth (N = 1061) using latent class analysis. Six activity classes of young gamblers were identified: Rare, Lottery/Scratch card, Broad Ranging, Pool, Unrestricted Access, and Heavy gamblers. The classes differed significantly on age, gender, number and type of gambling activities, gambling frequency, problem gambling, and amount spent on gambling. In addition, the relationship between problem gambling and the amount spent differed across classes. The results indicate the value of assessing gambling patterns as well as gambling frequency in research examining problem gambling. Although older youth have more opportunity to legally engage in a wider range of gambling activities, young people's gambling activity patterns are more indicative of potential gambling problems than age. Defrabbro, Lahn, and Grabosky (2005) found that problem gamblers were significantly more likely to gamble on card games, racing, EGMs, sports, and the Internet than non-problem gamblers. Among adult problem gamblers residing in Victoria, Australia, the most frequent gambling activities appear to only marginally overlap with those of problem gambling youth. These adult problem gamblers were more likely to wager on EGMs, Lotto/Powerball, and the pools (Department of Justice, 2009). Alongside country differences, sex and age differences are often reported.Like their adult counterparts, young males are more likely than young females to

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do gambling activity patterns predict gambling problems? A latent class analysis of gambling forms among Australian youth

Boldero

Bell

Moore

2010

International Gambling Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Youth who had an earlier initiation into gambling and had experienced a big win when they began gambling were at particular risk of adult problem gambling [ 23 , 25 ]. Yet, little is known about social contexts of early gambling experiences [ 26 ] and whether youth gambling persists into adulthood [ 1 ].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gambling in the Landscape of Adversity in Youth: Reflections from Men Who Live with Poverty and Homelessness

Hamilton‐Wright

Woodhall-Melnik

Guilcher

et al. 2016

IJERPH

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Most of the research on gambling behaviour among youth has been quantitative and focused on measuring prevalence. As a result, little is known about the contextual experiences of youth gambling, particularly among those most vulnerable. In this paper, we explore the previous experiences of youth gambling in a sample of adult men experiencing housing instability and problem gambling. We present findings from a qualitative study on problem gambling and housing instability conducted in Toronto, Canada. Thirty men with histories of problem or pathological gambling and housing instability or homelessness were interviewed. Two thirds of these men reported that they began gambling in youth. Five representative cases were selected and the main themes discussed. We found that gambling began in early life while the men, as youth, were also experiencing adversity (e.g., physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse, neglect, housing instability, homelessness, substance addiction and poverty). Men reported they had access to gambling activity through their family and wider networks of school, community and the streets. Gambling provided a way to gain acceptance, escape from emotional pain, and/or earn money. For these men problematic gambling behaviour that began in youth, continued into adulthood.

show abstract

“…At any rate, today the similarities between PG and other addictions (e.g., alcoholism) seem to be generally agreed and accepted (Fabionsson 2006;Krishnan and Orford 2002). Even though there is empirical evidence for the association between gambling and impulsive behaviour (Pagani et al 2010), which bears out the conceptualisation of PG as an impulse control disorder, in the latest classification PG moves from the category Impulse Control Disorder [DSM-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association 2002)] to a new category called Substance-Related Disorders (American Psychiatric Association 2010)-DSM-V (due to be published in 2013).…”

Section: Type Of Gambling Relationshipmentioning

confidence: 96%

Pathological Gambling and Couple: Towards an Integrative Systemic Model

Cunha

Relvas

2013

J Gambl Stud

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article is a critical literature review of pathological gambling focused in the family factors, particularly in the couple dynamics. Its main goal is to develop an explicative integrative systemic model of pathological gambling, based in these couple dynamics. To achieve that aim, a bibliography search was made, using on-line data bases (e.g., EBSCO Host) and recognized books in pathological gambling subject, as well as in the systemic approach in general. This process privileged the recent works (about 70 % of the reviewed literature was published in the last decade), however, also considered some classic works (the oldest one dates back to 1970). The guiding focus of this literature search evolves according to the following steps: (1) search of general comprehension of pathological gambling (19 references), (2) search specification to the subject "pathological gambling and family" (24 references), (3) search specification to the subject "pathological gambling and couple"(11 references), (4) search of systemic information which integrates the evidence resulted in the previous steps (4 references). The developed model is constituted by different levels of systemic complexity (social context, family of origin, couple and individual) and explains the problem as a signal of perturbation in the marital subsystem vital functions (e.g., power and control) though the regularities of marital dynamics of pathological gamblers. Furthermore, it gives theoretical evidence of the systemic familiar intervention in the pathological gambling.

show abstract

Recreational Gambling: Young People's Gambling Participation in Rural Australia

Cited by 13 publications

References 25 publications

Do gambling activity patterns predict gambling problems? A latent class analysis of gambling forms among Australian youth

Do gambling activity patterns predict gambling problems? A latent class analysis of gambling forms among Australian youth

Gambling in the Landscape of Adversity in Youth: Reflections from Men Who Live with Poverty and Homelessness

Pathological Gambling and Couple: Towards an Integrative Systemic Model

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About