Why Some Sports Bettors Think Gambling Addiction Prevented Them from Becoming Winners? A Qualitative Approach to Understanding the Role of Knowledge in Sports Betting Products

López-González, Hibai; Griffiths, Mark D.; Estévez, Ana

doi:10.1007/s10899-020-09944-3

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“…Other scholars conceive PIU primarily as an impulse-control disorder, due to being interwoven with significant impulse/inhibitory control deficits (Anderson et al, 2017). At least four different types of digital media applications (i.e., online gaming, online pornography, online gambling, and social media use) have been reported as likely high risk for PIU behaviors (Brand, Rumpf, King, Potenza, & Wegmann, 2020;Taylor & Gavey, 2020;Lopez-Gonzalez, Griffiths, & Estévez, 2020;Sun & Zhang, 2020).…”

Section: Maladaptive Outcomes Related To Digital Media Usementioning

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Risks and Opportunities for Youth in the Digital Era

Stavropoulos

Motti‐Stefanidi

Griffiths

2022

European Psychologist

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Abstract. Due to continued groundbreaking digital advancements, Internet use has increased significantly. This has led to a heated debate in relation to weighing the many advantages of the technology against its potentially deleterious effects. To address such questions, experts converge on the need for greater knowledge around the way individual differences, partly shaped by an individual’s unique experiences of engaging with the medium, and partly by other real-life experiences, lead to different developmental trajectories. Consequently, the goals of the present review are to (i) broadly describe differences in digital media applications, users, and usage; (ii) introduce the Cyber-Developmental Framework (CDF), as an overarching framework for understanding individual differences in adaptive and maladaptive digital media use among youth; (iii) delineate the cyber-component of this framework in relation to users’ experience of the digital context, their activity within it, as well as their digital self-presence, which may have an impact on their digital media use; and (iv) summarize priorities and future directions through the lens of this CDF. Within this context, this review particularly emphasizes the effect of digital media use on youth’s psychological well-being. It is argued that the trajectory youth will follow in their use of the Internet is a function of the interplay between their characteristics, their proximate and distal contexts, and the particular features of the digital application(s) that the individual is engaged in. The review points to the need to conduct research focusing on better understanding the developmental and digital-context-related influences on youth’s trajectories of Internet use.

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Section: Maladaptive Outcomes Related To Digital Media Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Risks and Opportunities for Youth in the Digital Era

Stavropoulos

Motti‐Stefanidi

Griffiths

2022

European Psychologist

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“…Research has identified an extensive list of gendered advertising themes tailored towards specific (male) populations including friendship, sexulaised images, social status, winning, thrill seeking and risk (Deans et al, 2016a). In addition, Gonzalez-Lopez et al (2018) highlight 'knowledge of sport' as a core feature of sport betting marketing designed to increase illusions of control over gambling outcomes, a belief which gamblers undergoing psychological treatment for gambling disorder find it difficult to reconfigure (Gonzalez et al, 2020). Tellingly, the student-athletes in this study appeared to have largely internalised 'knowing' as a reason to bet on one sport (team or match) over another alongside perceptions that some sports (football) are easier to bet on than others.…”

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“…Qualitative data were collected using a focus group interview method and were organised according to team affiliation (see Table 1). The focus group method has been used widely among gambling researchers (e.g., Gordon et al, 2015;Lamont & Hing, 2019;Lamont & Hing, 2020;Lopez-Gonzalez et al, 2020;McGee, 2020) and was selected in order to stimulate open and exploratory discussions among participants in a setting where they felt encouraged to share their views and experiences with the researcher (Conlin & Sillence, 2021). Focus groups were arranged in-person and were conducted in a relaxed and informal manner to ensure individuals felt comfortable discussing the subject of gambling in front of the researcher and their teammates.…”

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“…Watching televised sport is associated with greater intention to gamble, and whilst men tend to watch more sport than females, women who watch sport also display greater intention to gamble (Hing et al, 2013). Advertising through mainstream and social media channels has also been shown to act as an external barrier to changing problem gamblers' beliefs about the balance of knowledge and skill versus chance inherent to sports betting products (Lopez-Gonzalez et al, 2020). Specifically, Lopez-Gonzalez et al ( 2020) findings revealed the manner 'winners' are promoted and portrayed in marketing reinforce problem gamblers' perceptions about the value of knowledge and skill, and how certain approaches to betting can lead to greater success (profit).…”

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Gambling among university sport students: a preliminary analysis

Jones¹,

Bowles²,

Mayes³

et al. 2022

Auc Kinanthropologica

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The aim of this study was to explore risks associated with the gambling habits and attitudes of sport students governed by betting integrity rules. Using focus groups with male and female student rugby and football players, we identified four areas of concern. First, participants considered gambling as a ‘normal’ pastime – a largely harmless form of communal entertainment. Second, we found that participants’ gambling behaviour was influenced by marketing strategies and by peers. Third, although participants were aware of some of the potential risks of gambling, they had a limited understanding of how problem gambling and addiction might develop. Taken together, we believe these encourage gambling and increase risks of gambling related problems. The fourth concern relates to breaking integrity rules. Although we found no evidence of intentional corrupt behaviour, participants had a casual attitude towards gambling regulations, and some broke the betting rules in ways they deemed trivial. Moreover, participants did not seem to take anti-corruption education/intervention particularly seriously.

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“…Sports bettors in recovery struggle to understand the role that chance played in their betting history and wonder if they would have become successful bettors had they not lost control due to a gambling disorder (Lopez-Gonzalez et al, 2020). During their treatment, cognitive-behavioural therapy -the 'gold standard' for gambling disorder (Petry, 2016) -tries to restructure gamblers' thoughts about luck and skill, but new sports betting forms put into question some long-held truths such as the house edge (Woolley et al, 2013) and the illusion of control (Langer, 1975).…”

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The utilization and perception of sports betting experts (‘tipsters’) among sports bettors with gambling problems: a qualitative focus group interview study

López-González

Rius-Buitrago²,

Jiménez‐Murcia

et al. 2020

International Gambling Studies

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Tipsters are sports betting experts that offer recommendations concerning betting opportunities, usually in exchange for money. With the growth of online sports betting, tipsters have become more accessible via social media. However, it remains unknown whether tipsters might have an impact on sports bettors experiencing gambling problems.In the present study, data concerning tipsters were collected via focus group interviews with sports bettors undergoing treatment for gambling disorder (n=28) and examined utilizing a thematic analysis approach. The findings suggest that many participants used tipsters during their gambling activity, although they had divergent thoughts about their actual ability to produce accurate tips. The selection of tipsters appears to be biased towards personal contact and word-of-mouth strategies rather than objective performance data. Notably, many bettors had experienced thoughts of becoming tipsters themselves.The participants struggled to integrate into a coherent narrative both the existence of individuals such as tipsters who (allegedly) have been able to consistently 'beat the bookies', and their contrasting personal experience of repeated losses. This has 2 implications for therapists working on cognitive restructuring, because tipsters made sports bettors wonder about the importance of skill in betting, and whether thinking they could be winners was actually a distorted or a realistic perception.

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Why Some Sports Bettors Think Gambling Addiction Prevented Them from Becoming Winners? A Qualitative Approach to Understanding the Role of Knowledge in Sports Betting Products

Abstract: Why some sports bettors think gambling addiction prevented them from becoming winners? A qualitative approach to understanding the role of knowledge in sports betting products

Cited by 10 publications

References 40 publications

Risks and Opportunities for Youth in the Digital Era

Risks and Opportunities for Youth in the Digital Era

Gambling among university sport students: a preliminary analysis

The utilization and perception of sports betting experts (‘tipsters’) among sports bettors with gambling problems: a qualitative focus group interview study

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