The social determinants of youth gambling in South Australian adolescents

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dc.contributor.authorDelfabbro, P.
dc.contributor.authorThrupp, L.
dc.date.issued2003
dc.descriptionCopyright © 2003 The Association for Professionals in Services for Adolescents. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.
dc.description.abstractRecent Australian studies (Moore, S.M., and Ohtsuka, K. (1997). Journal of Gambling Studies, 13, 207–236) have revealed a strong youth interest in gambling in Australia, as reflected in current participatation levels, future intentions and attitudes. Implicit in much of this attitudinal research is that youth gambling is strongly influenced by the familial, social and cultural norms to which young people are exposed. In this paper, we investigate the hypothesis that gambling can be understood in terms of variations in economic socialization, namely, the way in which children learn about money, risk, and saving. A school survey of 505 adolescents (aged 15–17 years) showed that over 60% of adolescents were gambling annually and that 3.5% scored in the problematic range on the DSM-IV-J (Fisher, S.E. (1999). Addiction Research, 7, 509–538). More frequent gambling was associated with parental and peer gambling and pro-gambling attitudes, but unrelated to adolescents’ attitudes towards economic concepts. Nevertheless, in partial support of the hypotheses, adolescents whose parents taught them about keeping to a budget, saving money, and maintaining their finances were less likely to express an interest in future gambling.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityPaul Delfabbro and Letitia Thrupp
dc.description.urihttp://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622849/description#description
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Adolescence, 2003; 26(3):313-330
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/S0140-1971(03)00013-7
dc.identifier.issn0140-1971
dc.identifier.issn1095-9254
dc.identifier.orcidDelfabbro, P. [0000-0002-0466-5611]
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/3288
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAcademic Press Ltd
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-1971(03)00013-7
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectAnalysis of Variance
dc.subjectAttitude
dc.subjectGambling
dc.subjectIntention
dc.subjectFamily
dc.subjectPeer Group
dc.subjectAge Factors
dc.subjectSex Factors
dc.subjectSocial Environment
dc.subjectAdolescent
dc.subjectSouth Australia
dc.subjectFemale
dc.subjectMale
dc.subjectPsychology, Adolescent
dc.titleThe social determinants of youth gambling in South Australian adolescents
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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