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Tipsters and Addiction in Spain. Young People’s Perception of Influencers on Online Sports Gambling

This research analyzes young people’s perception of the presence of tipsters as influencers on online sports gambling and whether their presence can promote addiction to this activity. To achieve this goal, we designed a questionnaire that was administered to young people in public universities in M...

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Autores principales: Gonzálvez-Vallés, Juan Enrique, Barquero-Cabrero, José Daniel, Caldevilla-Domínguez, David, Barrientos-Báez, Almudena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8201121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34200259
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18116152
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author Gonzálvez-Vallés, Juan Enrique
Barquero-Cabrero, José Daniel
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description This research analyzes young people’s perception of the presence of tipsters as influencers on online sports gambling and whether their presence can promote addiction to this activity. To achieve this goal, we designed a questionnaire that was administered to young people in public universities in Madrid, being answered by 1032 individuals, out of whom 613 claimed to be regular bettors. We proceeded to the factor analysis of the variables with a high or very high correlation, and results showed that young people perceive a clear relationship between gambling and addiction. An even more enlightening aspect is the result that links tipsters with addiction to online sports gambling; young people’s perception correlates both concepts with extraordinary strength. This study’s main conclusion makes it clear that there is a huge amount of influence of tipsters on the world of online sports betting, as well as the risk of marrying these two concepts, since young people perceive that either they or others could be initiated into the world of problem gambling.
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spelling pubmed-82011212021-06-15 Tipsters and Addiction in Spain. Young People’s Perception of Influencers on Online Sports Gambling Gonzálvez-Vallés, Juan Enrique Barquero-Cabrero, José Daniel Caldevilla-Domínguez, David Barrientos-Báez, Almudena Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This research analyzes young people’s perception of the presence of tipsters as influencers on online sports gambling and whether their presence can promote addiction to this activity. To achieve this goal, we designed a questionnaire that was administered to young people in public universities in Madrid, being answered by 1032 individuals, out of whom 613 claimed to be regular bettors. We proceeded to the factor analysis of the variables with a high or very high correlation, and results showed that young people perceive a clear relationship between gambling and addiction. An even more enlightening aspect is the result that links tipsters with addiction to online sports gambling; young people’s perception correlates both concepts with extraordinary strength. This study’s main conclusion makes it clear that there is a huge amount of influence of tipsters on the world of online sports betting, as well as the risk of marrying these two concepts, since young people perceive that either they or others could be initiated into the world of problem gambling. MDPI 2021-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8201121/ /pubmed/34200259 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18116152 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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