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- Title
Lottery-Purchasing Adolescents: Gambling Perceptions, Problems, and Characteristics.
- Authors
Zhai, Zu Wei; Hoff, Rani A.; Howell, Jordan C.; Wampler, Jeremy; Krishnan-Sarin, Suchitra; Potenza, Marc N.
- Abstract
Gambling on the lottery is a prevalent behavior, and lottery products are increasingly available in online and electronic formats. As lottery-purchasing is prevalent in adolescents, this study systematically examined relationships between lottery-purchasing and problem-gambling severity and gambling perceptions and attitudes, as well as differences in the relationships between problem-gambling severity and measures of health/functioning and gambling characteristics among lottery-purchasing groups. Participants were 1517 Connecticut high-school adolescents with past-year gambling. Chi-square and logistic regression models were conducted, and interactions between problem-gambling severity and lottery-purchasing status on multiple outcomes were determined. Lottery-purchasing, compared to non-lottery-purchasing, adolescents had greater problem-gambling severity and reported more permissive gambling attitudes and greater parental approval of gambling. Significant between-group differences were observed, with at-risk/problem-gambling more strongly associated with having friends and adult gambling partners among non-lottery-purchasing adolescents, and machine and online gambling, and gambling alone more strongly associated among lottery-purchasing adolescents. Greater problem-gambling severity, permissive gambling attitudes, and parental approval of gambling in lottery-purchasing adolescents suggest that parenting contexts are important considerations in prevention efforts targeting problem gambling in youths. Between-group differences in associations between problem-gambling severity and gambling types and partners may identify high-risk groups associated with more solitary gambling behaviors for whom targeted interventions may be adapted.
- Subjects
CONNECTICUT; COMPULSIVE gambling; GAMBLING behavior; INTERNET gambling; TEENAGERS; PARENT attitudes; SOCIAL problems; CHARACTERISTIC functions
- Publication
Journal of Gambling Studies, 2021, Vol 37, Issue 4, p1177
- ISSN
1050-5350
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10899-021-10004-7