July 2023
95 studies entered the index this month.
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The structural characteristics of online sports betting: a scoping review of current product features and utility patents as indicators of potential future developments
Structural characteristics' are gambling product design features which contribute to the amount of time or money that gamblers spend using them, such as the short pay-out intervals of electronic gaming machines (EGMs).However, it is important to also understand the structural characteristics of current online sports betting products, and how these products …
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Multiple Additive Moderation Effect of Gender and Gambling Perception on the Relationship between Risky Usage of Random Item and Gambling Addiction
This study sought to find out the moderating effect of gender and recognizing random items as gambling in the relationship between the risky usage of random item and gambling addiction …
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GAMBLING-RELATED RISKS AND THE ROLE OFRESPONSIBLEGAMBLINGOF RESPONSIBLE GAMBLING
This arƟ cle examines the problems related to gambling, parƟ cularly in the context of Georgia, while exploring global approaches that promote responsible decision-making. It discusses various forms of gam-bling, including loƩ eries, sports beƫ ng, electronic gambling machines (EGMs), and casino games, and their asso-ciaƟ ons with problem gambling …
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Dos instituciones de la comunidad germana en el México de los años 20: el Casino Alemán y el Colegio Alemán
Este trabajo repasa los orígenes, las trayectorias y las características del Casino Alemán y el Colegio Alemán durante los años posrevolucionarios mexicanos, que coincidieron con el surgimiento y colapso de la República de Weimar entre 1920 y 1929 …
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Analisis Modus Operandi Kejahatan Perjudian Online
The background of this research is the modus operandi of online gambling crimes. The problem is the rise of online gambling among the public. Gambling via the internet (internet gambling) usually occurs because of placing bets on sports activities or casinos via the internet …
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All in: a scoping review of the association between gambling and athletic participation
The barriers between sport and gambling recently have eroded in the US. While this presents economic opportunities, it may also increase the risk of gambling problems among athletes, particularly if athletes are already more susceptible to gambling problems than others …
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Examining the Gambling Behavior of University Students: A Cross-Sectional Survey Applying the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change in a Single Institution
Gambling among college students can start as a pastime activity. However, this pastime can lead to problem gambling and pathological gambling …
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Entrepreneurial Innovation and Quality of Service in the Sports Betting Sector, Bagua - Peru
The objective was to determine the relationship between business innovation and service quality in companies in the sports betting sector …
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Dynamic Operads, Dynamic Categories: From Deep Learning to Prediction Markets
Natural organized systems adapt to internal and external pressures and this happens at all levels of the abstraction hierarchy.Wanting to think clearly about this idea motivates our paper, and so the idea is elaborated extensively in the introduction, which should be broadly accessible to a philosophicallyinterested audience.In the remaining sections, we …
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Longitudinal joint trajectories of gambling disorder and hypomentalization: A latent class growth analysis among young adults
Only a few studies have investigated the relationship between risk for gambling disorder (GD) and mentalization difficulties. However, these results on positive correlations were all from cross-sectional studies; therefore, it would be important to investigate the longitudinal relationship between the constructs …
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Screening and Treatment for Co-occurring Gambling and Substance Use: A Scoping Review
Abstract There is a high prevalence of gambling harms co-occurring with substance use harms. Where harms are co-occurring, they may be experienced as more severe. However, there is little evidence that services are systematically screening for such co-occurring harms in treatment-seeking populations …
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Safety and efficacy of intensified electrical stimulation targeting dorsolateral prefrontal cortex for the treatment of gambling disorder associated with online sports betting: a case report
The number of individuals with gambling disorders (GD) associated with online sports betting (OSB) is on the rise, despite the absence of effective treatment …
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Use of Social Media Platforms to Address Addiction and Psychosis in a New Age of Online College Gamblers
As gambling companies expand into the digital world, they have begun to approach the next generation in novel ways. Most recently, gambling companies have partnered with academic institutions to reach younger and more impressionable adults …
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MARCH MADNESS PROVIDES PLENTY OF HAPPINESS FOR U.S. SPORTSBOOKS AS PART OF RECORD SPORTS WAGERING REVENUE HAUL FOR MONTH OF MARCH
A record operator revenue haul for March shows sportsbooks have no signs of slowing their roll thanks to expansive success against the public in parlays.
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SENTENCING OF PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLERS IN CANADA. LESSONS FOR SOUTH AFRICA?
The focus of this note is on one specific type of sentencing, what is called “conditional sentence” in Canada, and “correctional supervision” in South Africa. The principles relating to this form of punishment in the two legal systems are again similar …
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Perceived stress moderates spending money on digital games and gambling: a nationwide study of Finnish adults
People face numerous stressors in their life. Some engage in buying behavior as a way of relieving or coping with stress. Gambling and digital gaming are examples of popular past time activities that can distract from stressors and involve spending money …
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Expectations about how alcohol consumption influences gambling
Laboratory studies reveal that participants’ expectations influence the relation between acute alcohol consumption and gambling behaviors. However, specific expectations have not been explored. To fill this gap, people who gamble frequently were asked about their expectations for how alcohol influences their gambling behaviors …
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Working memory performance in disordered gambling and gaming: A systematic review
Converging evidence supports that gaming and gambling disorders are associated with executive dysfunction. The involvement of different components of executive functions (EF) in these forms of behavioural addiction is unclear …
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Mapping the links between sexual addiction and gambling disorder: A Bayesian network approach
Contemporary literature and recent classification systems have expanded the field of addictions to include problematic behaviours such as gambling and sexual addiction. However, conceptualisation of behavioural addictions is poorly understood and gender-based differences have emerged in relation to how these behaviours are expressed …
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Metacognitive Awareness and the Hot Hand: When Winning, No Amount of Awareness Will Have Strong Believers Avoid the Heuristic
In some instances, such as in sports, individuals will cheer on the player with the "hot hand". But is the hot hand phenomenon a fallacy? The current research investigated (1) whether the hot hand fallacy (HHF) was related to risky decisions during a gambling scenario, and (2) whether metacognitive awareness might be related to optimal decisions …
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Gambling harm prevention and harm reduction in online environments: a call for action
Gambling is increasingly offered and consumed in online and mobile environments. The digitalisation of the gambling industry poses new challenges on harm prevention and harm reduction. The digital environment differs from traditional, land-based gambling environments …
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Gambling Disorder, Financial Loss and Suicide—A Journey to the ‘Outer Reaches’ of the Common Law
Abstract Almost as soon as Briggs J opined in Calvert v William Hill Credit Ltd (2008) that ‘recognition of a common law duty to protect a problem gambler from self-inflicted gambling losses involves a journey to the outermost reaches of the tort of negligence, to the realm of the truly exceptional’, the legal and technological context of his dictum …
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Addiction: A treatise from 1561
Background And Aims: In 1561, physician and philosopher Pascasius Justus Turq published a monograph on the description and treatment of pathological gambling. When the monograph came to the attention of the authors in 2006, there existed no known translation of it in any modern language. In 2014, it was translated and published in French …
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Examination of hookah usage and gambling status of university students*
Purpose This study examined hookah use by students, their gambling status, and the factors affecting it.Materials and Methods The research was descriptive and cross-sectional. A stratified random sampling method was used (n:1,724). A questionnaire and the South Oaks Gambling Screening Test (SOGS) were used to collect data …
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Efficacy of Continuous Theta Burst Stimulation to the Pre-supplementary Motor Area in Gambling Disorder: a Randomized Double-Blind Controlled Trial
Gambling disorder (GD) is a condition constituting a public health concern due to its impactful detrimental consequences for affected individuals and its very high social costs. Given the lack of FDA-approved treatments, novel non-pharmacological interventions are warranted …
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Appetitive and Aversive Motivation in Dysregulated Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis
Appetitive and aversive motivation are prominent in theories of dysregulated behaviors …
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A process model for responding to casino gambling harm experienced by Chinese migrants
With commercial casinos proliferating over the past two decades, gambling-related harm has attracted attention in terms of both research and development of treatment strategies. A problematic relationship with gambling has major consequences for gamblers, families, communities, and society …
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‘It Doesn’t Give Off the Gambling Vibes … It Just Feels Like a Part of the Game’: Adolescents’ Experiences and Perceptions of Simulated Gambling While Growing Up
Abstract This study explores the lived experience of simulated gambling as young people grow up. Qualitative research with 89 Australians aged 12–17 years explored their chronological experiences of simulated gambling and monetary gambling …
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Juridical Analysis of Electronic Transaction Information Crime Against Gambling
The research objective is. To find out the legal rules regarding gambling crimes. To find out the Decision of the Tangerang District Court at No. 794/Pid.Sus/2018/PN.Tgn. For perpetrators of ITE crimes against gambling crimes. Analyze the obstacles to law enforcement and efforts to address them …
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Juridical Analysis In Implementing Criminal Sanctions Against Gambling In Tangerang District
This study aims to discover the legal consequences of gambling crime and the Judge's considerations in deciding case number (2364/PID.B/2020/PN.TNG) regarding the corruption of gambling, which causes anxiety for the community. This research method uses a normative description approach according to the concept, legal basis, and legislation …
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Sales Volume, Noise Traders, and Efficiency of the Japanese Racetrack Betting Market
This study examines 3,270 races of the Japanese thoroughbred racetrack betting market. It finds that market efficiency improves with the sales volume and deteriorates with the number of horses on a race and an increase in less-informed bettors.
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Online Gambling Practices and Related Problems in Five European Countries: Findings from the Electronic Gam(bl)ing Multinational Empirical Survey (E-GAMES) Project
Online gambling has demonstrated a significant and growing impact on overall gambling involvement. To examine online gambling practices and associated problems, we conducted surveys with national samples of Internet users in several European countries …
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Herding Behavior in Prediction Markets: Evidence from UK Financial Spread-Trading Markets
We contrast the degree (strong vs. weak), nature (interaction between more and less informed traders; MI and LI, respectively), and patterns of herding behavior (via their feedback strategies) among MI and LI traders and their speed of reaction to shifts in trading by these groups …
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Betting Market-Based Expectations and NFL Coach Retention and Dismissal
Performance compared to expectations is important in evaluation of Chief Executive Officers, managers, and coaches. In many industries, expectation metrics are difficult to estimate or obtain. In professional sports, however, futures markets exist for season performance. In many sports, such as the NFL, there exists a wagering option on season win totals …
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UPAYA PEMBERANTASAN TINDAK PIDANA PERJUDIAN OLEH KEPOLISIAN (STUDI KASUS POLRES TANAH KARO)
The phenomenon of gambling is nothing new in people's lives, from the past until now the practice of gambling has existed. In essence, this gambling is contrary to religion and decency, it is very dangerous for the life of society, nation, and state …
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The application of Kelly Criterion in lottery mathematical statistics
The paper will introduce the concept of Gambler's Ruin by analyzing the psychological analysis of gamblers, and then research the probability problem in lottery …
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Interrupting Dissociation of Players through Real-Time Digital Tasks during Online Gambling
Online gambling is relatively easier to access compared to traditional one, so it can pose specific risks to individuals such as causing isolation, lack of interruption and dissociation …
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Effectiveness of Physiotherapy in Managing Symptomatology in Gambling Disorder Patients: A Systematic Review
Although the prevalence of gambling disorder (GD) and problem gambling has remained stable in recent years, the expansion of legalized gambling is considered a public health problem leading to significant personal, familial, and social impacts …
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Poor school performance and gambling among adolescents: Can the association be moderated by conditions in school?
Protective factors of adolescent gambling at the school level and their buffering potential are scarcely explored in prior research. This study aims to examine the protective possibility of low student-teacher ratio on youth gambling, both directly and by moderating the effect of low school performance …
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Communication for Power Negotiation of the Underground Lotto Gamblers
Background and Aim: This paper aim to investigate that communication in negotiating the power dynamics among Underground Lotto Gamblers. This article is part of the research on the Identities and Communication Networks of Middle-Class Underground Lotto Gamblers …
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Addictive leisure: an evaluation of the morality-economic politics of balancing casino development with local gambling policy
Legalised gambling is a regulated leisure activity and a public health problem. Permissive regulation attempts to balance the morality-economic politics of these opposing aspects through a combination of national policy oversight and regulatory devolution from national to local level …
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PERANAN HUKUM ADAT TERHADAP PERJUDIAN YANG DILAKUKAN OLEH ANAK MENURUT UNDANG UNDANG NO 11 TAHUN2012 DI PERADILAN KOTA SORONG
ABSTRACTCustomary law regulations that continue to develop, make customary law always judge. Each regulation of customary law arises, develops and then disappears with the birth of a new regulation, while a new regulation will develop but will then disappear with a change in the feeling of justice that lives in the people's conscience …
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Investor gambling preferences and stock returns: evidence from the Shanghai A-share markets
Purpose This study aims to examine the relationship between investor gambling preferences and stock returns, using data for all firms listed in Shanghai A-share market during 2016 and 2021. Design/methodology/approach This study employs price and trading volume data to capture the behavioral characteristics and gambling preferences of investors …
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Microbetting, Fantasy Sports and Risk of Gambling Disorder: A Scoping Review
The rapid growth of fantasy sports might facilitate constant play and harm. Micro-betting allows constant and impulsive betting, possibly augmenting the risk for gambling disorder …
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Impulsivity Moderates the Association Between Anxiety and Problem Gambling Among Canadian Undergraduates
Tension reduction theory suggests anxious people gamble to cope with negative affect. Literature demonstrates mixed associations between anxiety and gambling behaviours, hence, the important of examining moderators. This study examined how impulsivity moderated anxiety and problem gambling as well as gambling to cope …
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The Relationship Between Gambling Accessibility and Behavior Among Korean Adults
This is the first population-based study in South Korea to examine the comprehensive nature of gambling accessibility …
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Psychological intervention for gambling disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Abstract Background and aims Increasingly, gambling features migrate into non-gambling platforms (e.g., online gaming) making gambling exposure and problems more likely. Therefore, exploring how to best treat gambling disorder (GD) remains important …
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Investigating the associations of the illness representations of gambling disorder with superstitious and responsible gambling
As a theoretical framework for understanding illness self-management, the commonsense model of self-regulation (CSM) has been commonly used to promote health behaviors. However, its application to examining gambling disorder (GD) is still in an exploratory stage …
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How gambling harms others: The influence of relationship-type and closeness on harm, health, and wellbeing
Abstract Background and aims Concerned significant others (CSOs) can experience gambling-related harm, impacting their health and wellbeing. However, this harm varies depending on the type and closeness of the relationship with the person who gambles …
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Gambling among indebted individuals: an analysis of bank transaction data
Gambling is connected to important financial harms, including debt. Most existing research has investigated the relationship between gambling and debt using self-reported data. Only a few studies have used objective data. The current study focuses on the gambling of indebted individuals …
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How general functioning of family affects gambling-related beliefs: the mediating role of communication and the moderating role of impulsivity trait
Gambling behaviors can be exhibited by individuals raised in families with impaired parent-child communication and individuals with more impulsive traits. However, it remains unclear how gambling-related beliefs are modulated by impulsivity traits and parent-child communication styles …
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What explains the link between romantic conflict with gambling problems? Testing a serial mediational model
While individuals have many motives to gamble, one particularly risky motive for gambling is to cope with negative affect. Conflict with one's romantic partner is a strong predictor of negative affect, which may elicit coping motives for gambling and, in turn, gambling-related problems …
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Epidemic on Gambling Behavior Intention: The Moderating Effect of Anti-Epidemic Measure
This study focuses on how the COVID-19 epidemic affects gambling motivation and behavior. This research also analyzes the behavioral intervention effects of the anti-epidemic measures on the COVID-19 epidemic and the relationship between the epidemic impact and gambling motivation and behavior …
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Sports wagering in the context of addictive disorders: results from a census-matched U.S. sample
Recent legal cases, technological advances, and sports league administrative decisions have provided unprecedented access to various forms of sports wagering across the United States (U.S.). Such increases in access have highlighted gaps in current understanding of how sports wagering is related to a range of addictive behaviors …
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Protective and Risk Parenting Styles for Internet and Online Gambling Addiction
This study analyzes the relationship of the four parenting styles, authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, and neglectful, with Internet addiction and online gambling addiction. Study sample was 512 adolescents aged between 16 and 21 years (63.9% females, M = 18.7 , SD = 1.8 ) …
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High stakes. Commentary on the 2023 United Kingdom government white paper on gambling reform
The Academic Forum for the Study of Gambling (AFSG) broadly welcomes the long-awaited white paper on gambling published by the United Kingdom (UK) government on 27 April 2023 [1]. The AFSG is a group of academic researchers in the United Kingdom dedicated to advancing the research needed to effectively prevent, reduce and address gambling harm …
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Gambling behavior and criminal convictions: a register-based investigation
Background Gambling severity and criminal convictions are known to be correlated, but there is a lack of understanding of the associations between the type and frequency of offending, game types, gambling motives and gambling intensity …
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Pharmacotherapy and gambling disorder: a narrative review
Gambling disorder (GD) is a psychiatric disorder classified in the DSM-5 as a non-substance-related and addictive disorder with extensive health and socioeconomic impacts. Its chronic and high-relapsing nature makes it essential to find treatment strategies that improve functioning and reduce impairment associated with it …
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Gambling Addiction, Gambling Intention and Financial Wellbeing in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The goal of this study is to raise awareness about the various risks associated with gambling. It will focus on the effects of gambling addiction on gambling intention and its implications for financial wellbeing …
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UPAYA PENYIDIK KEPOLISIAN DALAM MENGUNGKAP MODUS OPERANDI TINDAK PIDANA PERJUDIAN DI WILAYAH HUKUM POLRES PEKALONGAN
The purpose of this study is to examine and analyze the efforts of police investigators in uncovering the modus operandi of gambling crimes in the jurisdiction of the Pekalongan Police …
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Research on detection techniques for pattern modifications of playing cards used in illegal gambling operations
We investigated pattern-modified marked cards used in fraudulent gambling cases in Korea. These cards are printed with modifications to some of the repeated marks on the back, revealing the hand on the front and enabling fraudsters to deceive their victims …
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Gambling, sports psychiatry, and disciplinary sanctions in English professional football
This paper critically examines the broader implications of the recent case involving the professional football player, Ivan Toney, who was sanctioned by the English Football Association for gambling-related offences …
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Penegakan Hukum Terhadap Pelaku Tindak Pidana Perjudian Online
The current development of information technology has brought people into the era of globalization which gives freedom to everyone in the world to socialize with anyone and wherever they are. The development of misused information technology has led to more modern crimes, namely online gambling using the internet as a means of committing crimes …
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Editorial: Risk behavior and its connection to addiction
behavioral addiction, non-suicidal self-injury (NSS), problematic internet pornography use (PIPU), gambling disorder (GD), alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS), internet addiction (IA)Editorial on the Research Topic Risk behavior and its connection to addiction
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Assessing Factors that Influence Teenagers’ Involvement in Gambling Activities in Tanzania: A Case of Tandika Ward of Temeke District, Dar es Salaam - Tanzania
Gambling is not a new phenomenon in the society and to the field of scholars. The subject has been in existence since the ancient societies, nevertheless it has gained popularity with more human interactions and modernization …
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How Casinoization Affects the Police in Macao
Abstract The past two decades have witnessed Macao’s development into the casino capital of the world. Casinos have significantly transformed all respects of Macao society—a phenomenon termed as the casinoization of Macao …
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The Paradoxical Clinical Course of Persons with Gambling Disorder and Comorbid Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
The co-occurrence of gambling disorder (GD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been widely reported. In this study, we aimed to investigate the social background, clinical characteristics, and clinical course of initial-visit GD patients with and without ADHD in a Japanese psychiatric hospital …
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Self-reported Deposits Versus Actual Deposits in Online Gambling: An Empirical Study
Abstract In recent years a number of studies have used objective gambling data from online gambling operators to study gambling behavior. A few of these studies have compared gamblers’ actual gambling behavior (using account-based tracking data) with their subjective gambling behavior (using responses from survey data) …
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Penegakan Hukum Terhadap Perjudian Online Berdasarakan Undang-Undang Nomor 19 Tahun 2016 Tentang Informasi Dan Transaksi Elektronik
Gambling is a game where players bet using money to choose one option among several options where only one choice is correct and wins. Law enforcement against gambling is not optimal, gamblers and bookies are not punished according to applicable law, even though this gambling is clearly a criminal act that is against the law in Indonesia …
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PENEGAKAN HUKUM TINDAK PIDANA TANPA HAK DENGAN SENGAJA TURUT SERTA MENAWARKAN KEPADA KHALAYAK UMUM UNTUK BERMAIN JUDI (Studi Putusan Nomor: 489/Pid.B/2022/PN.Tjk)
The aim of the research is to analyze law enforcement efforts made by the police in uncovering the crime of gambling at Tanjung Karang Decision Number: 489/Pid.B/2022/PN.Tjk and to analyze the inhibiting factors faced by the police in handling and uncovering cases of gambling crimes in an effort to enforce the law in Tanjung Karang Decision Number …
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Monitoring health and health behaviors among adolescents in Central Catalonia: DESKcohort protocol
The objective of the prospective cohort study (the DESKcohort project) is to describe and monitor health, health behaviors, and their related factors among 12 and 19-year-old adolescents schooled at centers of Compulsory Secondary Education or post-compulsory secondary education in Central Catalonia, considering social determinants of health …
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Gender Differences in the Propensity to Start Gambling
Abstract Gambling opportunities have greatly expanded in recent years leading to an alternative form of leisure but also raising social concerns …
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Competing in daily fantasy sports using generative models
Abstract We introduce a model for competing in daily fantasy sports competitions. Our approach combines modeling of players' fantasy points and subsequent lineup optimization. The distribution of fantasy points was estimated using an ensemble of generative models …
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Associations Between Heavy Episodic Drinking, Drinking While Gambling, and Risky Gambling
Abstract Introduction: Understanding how patterns of drinking are associated with risky gambling in Australia is needed to inform an effective approach to minimise harm. Methods: This cross-sectional questionnaire study reports on 2,704 subsampled participants who completed survey questions about their patterns of drinking …
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A Content Analysis of Problematic Gambling Prevention Interventions in the United States
Gambling revenue in the United States is at all-time highs while recent and forthcoming legislation relaxes constraints on casino gaming, sports betting, and fantasy sports betting. Increased gambling will result in increased problematic gambling, highlighting the need to study the impact of our problematic gambling prevention interventions …
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TINJAUAN YURIDIS PEMAIN JUDI ONLINE DI WILAYAH SIDOARJO
The development of information technology has made a significant contribution to the improvement of welfare, the advancement of human civilization, and progress in various fields. On the other hand, information tech-nology can also be effectively used as a means to facilitate illegal activities, such as online gambling …
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Early Modern Venetian Sex Work and the Business of Gambling
By the sixteenth century, the ever-growing popularity of casini and ridotti in cities such as Venice resulted in the widespread pursuit of women’s gambling …
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Developmental pathways to pathological gambling and reasons for treatment seeking in a Greek rural sample
Aim The aim of this study is to understand the developmental pathways of pathological gambling and reasons for treatment seeking.Methods Qualitative study featuring the use of semi-structured interviews of 32 adults who gambled pathologically and participated in treatment groups at KETHEA’s ARIADNI Open Care Unit in Heraklion Crete, Greece.Results Onset of …
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An application of choice-based conjoint analysis to measure willingness to pay for casino buffets
Purpose The purpose of this study is to discover what attributes of casino buffet restaurants are the most important for customers’ willingness to pay (WTP) …
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“Why Don't You Go Down to Wall Street and Get Some Real Crooks?”: Capitalism and Masculinity in GoodFellas , Casino , and The Wolf of Wall Street
across twenty-three years, martin scorsese directed three films—GoodFellas (1990), Casino (1995), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)—that employ similar narrative structures and stylistic devices to explore variations on the same themes: class aspiration, greed, and masculinity in twentieth-century America …
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Understand how changes to AGA's code of ethics impact sports wagering and college campuses
The American Gaming Association updated its Responsible Marketing Code for Sports Wagering in March of this year. (The AGA is the national trade group representing the U.S …
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Studying the Involvement of Ghrelin in the Mechanism of Gambling Addiction in Rats after Exposure to Psychogenic Stressors in Early Ontogenesis
Abstract We investigated the role of ghrelin and its receptors in the manifestation of gambling addiction elements in rats exposed to early psychogenic stress …
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Sleep Problems and Gambling Disorder: Findings in Non-Treatment Seeking Young Adults
Aims The aim of the study was to investigate the potential association between gambling disorder and symptoms of sleep problems including insomnia and hypersomnolence. Gambling disorder is a behavioural addiction featuring persistent, recurrent gambling resulting in distress and impairment of function …
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Sex Differences, and Resulting Treatment Differences, in a Cohort of Harmful Gamblers
Aims Gordon Moody offers Tier 4 treatment for harmful gambling. This poster will look at the differences between male and female harmful gamblers who apply for treatment with Gordon Moody between 2015 and 2022, and consider how treatment should reflect these differences. Methods An opportunity sample (n = 3,241) are analysed and discussed …
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Identification, epidemiology, etiology, and treatment of gambling disorder
Gambling is a complex mental disorder with social and economic impacts. The lifetime prevalence rate of gambling disorder in the general U.S. population is about 0.4%–1.0% …
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Horse Racing the Chicago Way: Gambling, Politics, and Organized Crime, 1837–1911
For scholars of sports, culture, and politics, a new Steven Riess book is always noteworthy. For those of us who study horse racing, his work has been field-defining. In 2011, Riess's The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime chronicled New York racing after the Civil War, tracing the rise of Gotham as a center of racetrack power …
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Business cycles, stock market wealth, and gambling at the racetracks
Purpose As digital technologies expand access to new forms of legalized gambling, including sports betting and online gaming, it is important to assess the impact of macroeconomic and equity market outcomes on fund flows into gambling …
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Association between Gambling, Perceived Social Support, and Self-Esteem among Secondary School Students in Orlu
Abstract Background: The changes in accessibility to gambling have led to an increase in gambling among young persons. Aims: The study aims to evaluate the association between gambling, perceived social support, and self-esteem among secondary school students in Orlu, Nigeria …