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Offline and Online Gambling in a Swiss Emerging-Adult Male Population
Faced with the rapid expansion of the online gambling offer, a growing number of jurisdictions around the world are developing legislation to regulate online gambling. The new Swiss Act on gambling extends legalization of online gambling from already authorized lottery-type to casino-type gambling....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9653321/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35133536 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10899-022-10106-w |
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author | Tomei, Alexander Petrovic, Gordana Simon, Olivier |
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description | Faced with the rapid expansion of the online gambling offer, a growing number of jurisdictions around the world are developing legislation to regulate online gambling. The new Swiss Act on gambling extends legalization of online gambling from already authorized lottery-type to casino-type gambling. In this context, the present study examines offline and online gambling behaviors in emerging-adult males as a particularly at-risk population for gambling addiction. A sample of 1,869 young males completed a questionnaire assessing offline and online gambling behaviors as well as severity of problem gambling. Results show that 62.1% of the respondents were lifetime gamblers while 46.7% were past-year gamblers. Among the latter, 76.4% had gambled only within offline venues, 21.4% had gambled at both offline and online sites, and 2.2% had gambled online only. Furthermore, 17.6% of past-year gamblers were at moderate-risk of developing problem gambling whilst 3.6% were problem gamblers. Association analysis showed that, compared to non-problem gamblers, at-risk and problem gamblers played online at higher rates. These findings contribute to the growing literature on youth gambling behaviors and on offline-online transitions. In the context of the growing online gambling supply, the evolution of youth gambling behaviors should be monitored through periodical assessments. |
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spelling | pubmed-96533212022-11-15 Offline and Online Gambling in a Swiss Emerging-Adult Male Population Tomei, Alexander Petrovic, Gordana Simon, Olivier J Gambl Stud Original Paper Faced with the rapid expansion of the online gambling offer, a growing number of jurisdictions around the world are developing legislation to regulate online gambling. The new Swiss Act on gambling extends legalization of online gambling from already authorized lottery-type to casino-type gambling. In this context, the present study examines offline and online gambling behaviors in emerging-adult males as a particularly at-risk population for gambling addiction. A sample of 1,869 young males completed a questionnaire assessing offline and online gambling behaviors as well as severity of problem gambling. Results show that 62.1% of the respondents were lifetime gamblers while 46.7% were past-year gamblers. Among the latter, 76.4% had gambled only within offline venues, 21.4% had gambled at both offline and online sites, and 2.2% had gambled online only. Furthermore, 17.6% of past-year gamblers were at moderate-risk of developing problem gambling whilst 3.6% were problem gamblers. Association analysis showed that, compared to non-problem gamblers, at-risk and problem gamblers played online at higher rates. These findings contribute to the growing literature on youth gambling behaviors and on offline-online transitions. In the context of the growing online gambling supply, the evolution of youth gambling behaviors should be monitored through periodical assessments. Springer US 2022-02-08 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9653321/ /pubmed/35133536 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10899-022-10106-w Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Tomei, Alexander Petrovic, Gordana Simon, Olivier Offline and Online Gambling in a Swiss Emerging-Adult Male Population |
title | Offline and Online Gambling in a Swiss Emerging-Adult Male Population |
title_full | Offline and Online Gambling in a Swiss Emerging-Adult Male Population |
title_fullStr | Offline and Online Gambling in a Swiss Emerging-Adult Male Population |
title_full_unstemmed | Offline and Online Gambling in a Swiss Emerging-Adult Male Population |
title_short | Offline and Online Gambling in a Swiss Emerging-Adult Male Population |
title_sort | offline and online gambling in a swiss emerging-adult male population |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9653321/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35133536 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10899-022-10106-w |
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