April 2023
83 studies entered the index this month.
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The comparative study on the factors that affect adolescents’ online-offline gambling behavior: Focused on differential association theory
Because adolescents’ gambling behavior causes various social problems over personal dimension problems, effective methods on not just themselves but home, school, and governmental levels(such as the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Gender Equality & Family, Ministry of Health and Welfare, and National Police Agency) are urgently requested …
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Pathological Gambling Disorder Associated With Modafinil Therapy in a Patient With Type 1 Narcolepsy
We report the case of a 22-year-old man with type 1 narcolepsy who experienced pathological gambling after modafinil therapy. The patient was administered with modafinil, which improved excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). However, he experienced heart palpitations and nervousness, eventually developing gambling addiction …
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Online Gambling and Organised Violence: The Federal Court Perspective in Lei Meng’s Case
Apart from the Common Gaming House Act (Act 289) and Betting Act (Act 495), gambling is regulated under the Prevention of Crimes Ordinance 1959 (POCA). It is not uncommon for the authorities to charge anyone who is engaged in illegal online gambling activities under the POCA. In the case of Lei Meng v …
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Juridical Analysis of Article 45 Paragraph 2 of Law Number 19 of 2016 Concerning Information and Electronic Transactions Against Gambling Crimes Among the Community Based on Social Control Theory
Gambling is a game where players bet to choose one option among several options where only one choice is correct and wins. The player who loses the bet will give his bet to the winner. Rules and bet amounts are determined before the game starts. Community disease in the form of gambling in 2021 as many as 198 cases have been revealed with 294 suspects …
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JURIDICAL REVIEW OF ONLINE GAMBLING CRIME IN NORTH SUMATERA
Law enforcement is carried out by law enforcers. In addition to depending on the legal awareness of the community, the implementation of law in society is also very much determined by law enforcement officials …
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Impact of Betting Legalisation in India
Betting and gambling industry is growing at a fast pace throughout the global economy and is one of the most evergreen industries of the world. In India there is clear evidence of a vast illegal betting and gambling industry functioning for decades …
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Financial Literacy Confidence and Gambling Intensity among Informal Labor
This paper aimed to investigate whether financial literacy (knowledge and confidence) affects the level of gambling intensity among informal laborers in southern Thailand. Multistage sampling was applied, and a semi-structured questionnaire was used to interview the subjects face-to-face …
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Evolution of fairness in the divide-a-lottery game
In this paper, we show that fairness can evolve in the divide-a-lottery game which is more general than the divide-a-dollar game by using an indirect evolutionary approach. In the divide-a-lottery game, the size of a pie is uncertain …
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Validation of a Spanish Adaptation of the Gambling Symptom Assessment Scale (G-SAS) in Persons with Recent History of Gambling
Abstract Gambling is becoming increasingly frequent and problematic, especially due to the explosion of online alternatives. Evaluating the severity of gambling symptomatology is therefore more important than ever. However, innovations in the gambling field have generally focused on its treatment rather than its evaluation …
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University Students' Gaming and Gambling Behaviors, Related Factors, and the Relationship Between Gaming and Gambling
The purpose of this study was to investigate university students' gaming and gambling behaviors, the factors that relate to these behaviors, and the connection between gaming and gambling behaviors. The study was designed as survey research, which is one of the quantitative research methods …
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Three Contrasting Accounts of Electronic Gambling Machine Related Harm: Impacts on Community Views Towards Gambling Policy and Responsibility
Abstract This study investigated whether there was community support for prominent gambling harm reduction policies, as well as perceived responsibility for electronic gambling machine (EGM) related harm in an Australian sample (n = 906) …
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Impaired cognitive flexibility across psychiatric disorders
Abstract Objective Problems with cognitive flexibility have been associated with multiple psychiatric disorders, but there has been little understanding of how cognitive flexibility compares across these disorders …
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Demographic and behavioural differences between gamblers with and without Gambling Disorder
Population Medicine considers the following types of articles:• Research Papers -reports of data from original research or secondary dataset analyses.• Review Papers -comprehensive, authoritative, reviews within the journal's scope.These include both systematic reviews and narrative reviews.• Short Reports -brief reports of data from original research.• …
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Can Illegal Investments be Classified as Gambling? An Analysis
Economic expansion has been accompanied by a tremendous increase in personal wealth in recent decades. As people’s wealth increases, so do their investment demands. The number of illegal investment cases is likewise rising quickly. Along with technological advancements, gambling has become more prevalent in addition to incidences of unlawful investment …
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The impact of celebrity and influencer endorsement on the gambling attitudes of Australian young people
The impact of celebrity and influencer endorsement on the gambling attitudes of Australian young people
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Managing the financial risks and harms from gambling: a lived experience perspective
Managing the financial risks and harms from gambling: a lived experience perspective
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Developing comprehensive public health responses to gambling research, policy and practice
Developing comprehensive public health responses to gambling research, policy and practice
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Underage Problem Gambling: With Whom, Where and Why
Underage gambling is a widespread phenomenon with its own characteristics that differentiate it from adult gambling. In addition, problem gambling has shown a remarkable prevalence in previous studies …
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Problem gambling within sexual and gender minorities: A systematic review
A body of literature now suggests that sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) experience a distinct set of stressors in the form of minority stress, which may function as a risk factor for the development of negative psychological and behavioral health outcomes. A systematic review of the literature was conducted through June 1st, 2022 …
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Problem gambling among people with first-episode psychosis: protocol for a prospective multicenter cohort study
The limited available data suggest that the prevalence of problem gambling is increased among young adults with first-episode psychosis, possibly due in part to several risk factors for problem gambling that are common in this population …
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Online Game Speculative Experiences and Problem Gambling among Adolescents in South Korea: Dual Mediation Effects of Irrational Beliefs and Gambling Attitude
This study aimed to test the effect of online gaming speculative experiences on problem gambling via irrational beliefs in and attitudes toward gambling …
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Links between Smoking, E-cigarette and Cannabis use, and Gambling in Ireland: What are the odds?
Aim & ScopeTobacco Prevention & Cessation, (Abbr:
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Gambling Associated Risk-Taking Decision in Cerebellar Ataxia (P9-11.001)
We used the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) to assess the decision-making process associated with impulsive and compulsive behaviors in people with cerebellar ataxia (CA). Background: Individuals with CA can develop impulsive and compulsive behaviors that significantly affect their and their family’s quality of life …
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The Late Miocene hippopotamid,Archaeopotamus pantanelliinov. comb., from the Casino Basin (Tuscany, Italy): paleobiogeographic implications
Fossil remains from the latest Messinian of Casino Basin (Tuscany, Italy) are known since the beginning of the nineteenth century …
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Betting Menace: Riddle of Television Advertising and University Students Betting Behaviour
To establish the influence of television's testimonial advertisement technique on sports betting among the university students in Kenya. Methodology: The study used a mixed method design …
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A Comparative Event-Related Potentials Study between Alcohol Use Disorder, Gambling Disorder and Healthy Control Subjects through a Contextual Go/NoGo Task
(1) Background: Inhibitory and rewarding processes that mediate attentional biases to addiction-related cues may slightly differ between patients suffering from alcohol use (AUD) or gambling (GD) disorder …
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A longitudinal study of gambling motives, problem gambling and need frustration
Gambling motives are an important element in understanding the development of problem gambling, yet most of the recent studies investigating their role in problem gambling have been cross-sectional. This study analyzed the links between gambling motives and problem gambling using a longitudinal study design …
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Stefon Dercon: Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose. London: Hurst, 2022. 398 pages. USD $34.95 (hardback)
Stefan Dercon has a deal for you.Well, not for you, personally, but for the elites of the countries of the world that have not yet set themselves on the path out of poverty.The deal is a gamble: risk the comfortable equilibrium where the elite maintain power through clientelism and patronage, in exchange for a chance at widespread prosperity.What explains …
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Gambling among employees in Swedish workplaces: A cross-sectional study
Responsible workplaces strive to minimize the harmful effects of alcohol and drug abuse. However, gambling is still a neglected area in workplace research …
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Corrigendum to "Fluoxetine combined with risperidone in treatment of online gambling disorder-case report" [Heliyon 9 (3) (March 2023) Article e13772]
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13772.].
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Betting on Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation to Treat Gambling Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Gambling disorder (GD) is a behavioral addiction that severely impacts individuals' functioning, leading to high socioeconomic costs. Non-invasive brain stimulation (NiBS) has received attention for treating psychiatric and neurological conditions in recent decades, but there is no recommendation for its use for GD …
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Gambling lifestyles: The importance of social capital and diverse networks
Scholars often overlook leisure gambling perspectives and focus on more health-related mechanisms, such as compulsive gambling behaviours. Consequently, understanding gambling as leisure is under-explored, especially in an economic sociological context …
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Exploring the Precipitating Events and Gambling-Related Activities that Prompt Problem Gamblers and Spouses/Cohabitants to Contact a Gambling Helpline
Gambling helplines have progressed to offer support and brief interventions for both the problem gambler (PG) and their spouse/cohabitant (S/C). S/Cs play an important role in assisting their partner with their recovery from a gambling disorder. However, few studies have investigated the concerns of both PGs and S/Cs who contact gambling helplines …
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Applying the Protective Gambling Beliefs Scale (PGBS) among Chinese gamblers and testing its association with responsible gambling
Accurate and rational gambling beliefs have been found to play a protective role against gambling disorder (GD) and add unique insights into the prevention and intervention of gambling-related harms …
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Stimulation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex modulates brain cue reactivity to reward (un)availability
Brain imaging studies have shown that stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), which plays a pivotal role in high-order cognitive control processes, modulates brain reactivity to reward-related cues …
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Sports gambling among youths: The role of demographic factors and prevalence
Sports’ betting is the most popular form of gambling among youths and it has strong appeal across classes, gender, sexuality, races and other social categorization …
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Lottery Ticket Search on Untrained Models with Applied Lottery Sample Selection
Abstract In our recent paper [1] we presented leading results in tabular datasets by applying the lottery ticket hypothesis to tabular neural networks. However, we were required to train the original large-sized model to find these lottery tickets …
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Dynamic expectations: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence of sub-second updates in reward predictions
Expectations are often dynamic: any sports fan knows that expectations are rapidly updated as games unfold. Yet expectations have traditionally been studied as static. Here, using slot machines as a case study, we provide parallel behavioral and electrophysiological evidence of sub-second moment-to-moment changes in expectations …
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Problematic trading: gambling-like behavior in day trading and cryptocurrency investing
In general terms, financial investments can be understood as the acquisition of an asset, with
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Peer and Parental Social Norms as Determinants of Gambling Initiation: A Prospective Study
Despite the potential consequences of gambling during adolescence, the factors involved in the initiation of this behavior are relatively understudied. Using a longitudinal design, the present study analyzed the contribution of parental and peer norms to adolescent gambling initiation …
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Extension to Block and Customize Websites in the Browser to Isolate the User from Piracy Websites, Fraudulent Risk, Online Gambling, and Social Media Addiction
Website-blocking browser extensions are tools that users can install in their web browsers to block access to certain websites or content …
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Development of Gambling Behaviour and Its Relationship with Perceived Social Support: A Longitudinal Study of Young Adult Male Gamblers
Abstract Young adult men who gamble frequently face an elevated risk of developing gambling-related problems. So far, little is known about how changing levels of perceived social support interact with the course of gambling behaviour and gambling-related problems in this population …
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Understanding Involuntary Illegal Online Gamblers in the U.S.: Framing in Misleading Information by Online Casino Reviews
Although there are many illegal online gamblers in the United States who use offshore gambling sites while falsely believing that their activity is legitimate, few studies have focused on the role of online casino reviews (OCR) who facilitate this activity. These reviews, for a variety of reasons, may present misleading information designed to encourage U.S …
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The role of mental health in online gambling decisions: A discrete choice experiment
People with mental health problems are more likely to experience problems due to gambling, an intersection of two sources of social disadvantage. However, the mechanisms by which this occurs remain unclear …
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Analisis Semiotika Roland Barthes pada Video Musik Exo Lotto
This study aims to discuss Roland Barthes' semiotic analysis of the Exo Lotto Music Video. The research method used is a qualitative descriptive type through observation techniques and library research. The results and discussion of this study are that there are signs of denotation, connotation, and myths in the Exo Lotto music video …
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Regulating Gambling Use through the Overton Window: From an Addictive Behavior to a Social and Epidemiological Problem
During the last decade, gambling (online and offline) regulation has become a social and epidemiological problem all around Europe. The aftermaths of this addiction have increased since the so-called "responsible gambling law", in the second decade of the 21st century …
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A third-person effect approach to understanding residents’ attitude towards casino development
This article presents the first preliminary evidence of the third-person effect in understanding residents’ attitudes toward casino development. Third-person effect refers to a phenomenon whereby people think others are more vulnerable to socially undesirable stimuli than themselves …
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The Role of Aging, Time Perspective, and Gambling-Related Cognitions in Affective Decision-Making
Abstract Several studies have examined age differences in affective decision-making utilizing the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). However, findings are mixed, with some studies reporting impairments due to aging and others showing no age-related differences …
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Gambling problems predict suicidality in recently transitioned military veterans
This study investigated associations between gambling problems and suicidality in Australian veterans. Methods: Data drawn from n = 3,511 Australian Defence Force veterans who had recently transitioned to civilian life …
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Australia's gambling epidemic: The role of Covid‐19 support payment
Abstract Covid‐19 exposed the whole world to numerous challenges ranging from health to economic recession. Nevertheless, it also impeded gambling activities. Here, we consider the relationship between Covid‐19 support payment and gambling. Gambling is considered leisure for many game players but leads to multiple social and economic harms …
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The co-morbidity of DSM-V Gambling with DSM-V mental disorders and substance abuse in a Kenyan context of high risk schizophrenia
There is evidence that gambling disorder shares similarities with other types of addictive behavior, such as occurs in substance abuse. In addition, co-morbidity of gambling with mental disorders has been established in school-going students …
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The availability of non-instrumental information increases risky decision-making
Contemporary models of decision-making under risk focus on estimating the final value of each alternative course of action. According to such frameworks, information that has no capacity to alter a future payoff (i.e., is "non-instrumental") should have little effect on one's preference for risk …
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Adoption, Adaptation or Exposure? Novel Digital Gambling Activities and Links with Gambling Problems
Abstract Purpose of Review Gambling problems are much more common amongst people who use novel gambling products, including skin gambling, esports betting and fantasy sports betting. The exposure and adaptation effects suggest that, like a novel pathogen, new products produce gambling problems until adaptation can counteract vulnerabilities …
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Problem Gambling Among Adolescents in Uganda: A Cross-sectional Survey Study
Abstract In recent years, gambling has evolved and grown substantially with new gambling activities and facilities being introduced, making gambling products and opportunities more available than ever before in Uganda …
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Five-Factor Model and DSM-5 Alternative Model of Personality Disorder Profile Construction: Associations with Cognitive Ability and Clinical Symptoms
Although numerous studies have explored latent profiles using the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of normative personality, no studies have investigated how broad personality traits (i.e., FFM) and pathological personality traits using the alternative model of personality disorder (AMPD) may combine for latent personality profiles …
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Statutory levy on gambling may do more harm than good
Although a levy would raise funds, May van Schalkwyk and colleagues argue there are many reasons why it may be ineffective at preventing gambling harms
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Nursing students' perceived knowledge, therapeutic attitudes, and interest in addictions education
Nurses care for people who use substances (SU) and have addictions across healthcare settings; however, education has been lacking about these issues. Experiences working with patients with SU paired with lack of knowledge may negatively affect attitudes …
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Intimate partner violence linked to gambling: cohort and period effects on the past experiences of older women
Problem gambling increases the risk of experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV). People impacted by gambling-related IPV face distinctive challenges, and these may be compounded by intersections with gender, generational influences and contextual factors …
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Gaming the IRS’ Third‐Party Reporting System: Evidence from Pari‐Mutuel Wagering
ABSTRACT This study examines whether taxpayers intentionally avoid Internal Revenue Service (IRS) third‐party reports. In 2017 an IRS amendment created a quasi‐exogenous shock that reduced third‐party tax reporting of pari‐mutuel gambling winnings from certain types of wagers. I consider the effect that this rule change had on taxpayer behavior …
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Gambling addiction in the UK: the long road to public health recognition
After decades of relying on gambling industry funding to support addiction services, the NHS’s own specialist service is beginning to find its feet. Charlie Metcalfe finds there is still some distance to travel
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An industry built on harm
An industry built on harm Juliet Dobson managing editorEvery year, it has been estimated, up to around 500 suicides in England are linked to gambling (doi:10.1136/bmj.p766) …
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Prelimbic neuron assemblies with delayed activation encode the economic decision-making process in a bandit game
The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is critical to an animal's value-based decision-making process. However, due to heterogeneity of local mPFC neurons, which neuron group and how it contributes to the alteration of the animal's decision is yet to be explored. And the effect of empty reward in this process is often neglected …
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Gambling on the stock market: the behavior of at-risk online traders
Purpose Online investment platforms offer an environment that may lead some traders into excessive behaviors akin to gambling. Over the last decade, gambling behaviors associated with the stock market have attracted the attention of many researchers but the literature on the subject remains scarce …
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Gambling on an empty stomach: Hunger modulates preferences for learned but not described risks
Abstract Introduction We assess risks differently when they are explicitly described, compared to when we learn directly from experience, suggesting dissociable decision‐making systems. Our needs, such as hunger, could globally affect our risk preferences, but do they affect described and learned risks equally? …
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A Study of Assessment of Casinos’ Risk of Ruin in Casino Games with Poisson Distribution
Gambling, as an uncertain business involving risks confronting casinos, is commonly analysed using the risk of ruin (ROR) formula. However, due to its brevity, the ROR does not provide any implication of nuances in terms of the distribution of wins/losses, thus causing the potential failure of unravelling exceptional and extreme cases …
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GAMBLING BUSINESS AS PART OF KAZAKHSTAN'S TOURISM POTENCIAL
This article examines possibilities of applying gaming industry as a tool for developing the tourism potential of Kazakhstan. It contains a detailed study of experience of foreign countries in regulation of gambling and its impact on the development of tourism in the state …
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The Game of Dice on People's Entertainment Performance Islamic Perspective (Study in The District Juwana, Central Java)
Gambling is an act that has a speculative element, without which is there is no hard work. Purposes of the Research: The research aims are to describe dice game as a form of gambling from an Islamic perspective, moreover, to explain why Indonesian prohibits gambling …
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Mo’ Mobile Plus Mo’ Parlays means Mo’ Money for Sports Wagering Operators
Sports wagering in the United States attained mainstream status in 2022, aided by New York's entry into the mobile marketplace and the widespread popularity of parlay offerings, led by FanDuel. Handle and revenue rose substantially compared to 2021 and has positioned the industry for further growth with more states already online in 2023.
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Greyhounds in a Sin City: Animal Welfare under Macao's Gambling Culture
For a few years in the 1930s and then for another fifty-five years since 1963, greyhound racing was one of the attractions that helped boost Macau's repertoire as the Monte Carlo of the East. Adopting the Marxist framework of commodification of non-human animals, this study explores the shaping of human-animal interaction in the context of a gambling city …
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Financial Risk Analysis using Machine Learning
A financial risk analyst distinguishes and examinations potential dangers undermining the monetary place of business and modern partnerships and public/confidential associations. Monetary gamble experts by and large work in one of four gambling classes: credit, market, administrative, or functional …
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DETERMINATION OF INCOME IN THE FRAMEWORK OF ILLEGAL GAMBLING
В статье рассматривается вопрос дохода, получаемого от нелегальной игорной деятельности. Исследуется модернизация ст. 171.2 УК РФ в рамках дохода как признака преступного деяния с момента ее введения в уголовное законодательство и в действующей редакции …
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Construction Method of Casino based on Ethereum
There are a lot of things that humans cannot do, and one of them is being fair, especially when he is running a casino. However, Ethereum can. Constructing a casino that is regulated by Ethereum can give us the first fair casino in the world …
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Clinical Correlates of Sports Betting: A Systematic Review
Abstract Sports betting is becoming increasingly widespread, and a growing number of individuals, both adolescents and adults, participate in this type of gambling …