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“All you’ve got to do is stop”: A Qualitative Examination of Gambling Stigma and Discrimination from the Perspective of Lived Experience

Critical Gambling Studies
People with lived experience have drawn attention to gambling stigma as a harm in itself, justifying discrimination and exacerbating other harms. The gambling establishment’s response has reproduced individual responsibility by reducing stigma to a ...
Elizabeth Killick, Clare Wyllie, Alexander Källman, Michelle Potiaumpai   +3 more
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Prevalence of Adolescent Problem Gambling: A Systematic Review of Recent Research

Journal of Gambling Studies, 2016
Previous research has shown that gambling is a popular activity among adolescents. Following a rapid expansion of legalized gambling opportunities and the emergence of new forms of gambling, many researchers have carried out studies on adolescent ...
Filipa Calado, J. Alexandre, M. Griffiths   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Perspective on Age Restrictions and Other Harm Reduction Approaches Targeting Youth Online Gambling, Considering Convergences of Gambling and Videogaming

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Internet gambling has become a popular activity among some youth. Vulnerable youth may be particularly at risk due to limited harm reduction and enforcement measures.
Jing Shi, Jing Shi, Michelle Colder Carras, Marc N. Potenza, Marc N. Potenza, Marc N. Potenza, Marc N. Potenza, Nigel E. Turner, Nigel E. Turner, Nigel E. Turner   +9 more
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Audit to Determine the Incidence of Did Not Attend (DNA) Rates at First Assessment in the NHS Northern Gambling Service (NGS) by Assessment Modality

BJPsych Open
Aims Non-attended appointments can lead to adverse outcomes for a service and its users, including reduced service efficiency; increased waiting times; and impaired patient care.
John Barker, Benjamin Marriott
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Online Gambling of Pure Chance: Wager Distribution, Risk Attitude, and Anomalous Diffusion [PDF]

, 2019
Online gambling sites offer many different gambling games. In this work we analyse the gambling logs of numerous solely probability-based gambling games and extract the wager and odds distributions. We find that the log-normal distribution describes the wager distribution at the aggregate level.
arxiv   +1 more source

Gambling Marketing from 2014 to 2018: a Literature Review

Current Addiction Report, 2019
Purpose of ReviewLegislation and technology have led to unprecedented changes in the frequency and content of gambling marketing in many countries. We build upon previous reviews by exploring research on gambling marketing from between 2014 and 2018 ...
P. Newall, C. Moodie, G. Reith, M. Stead, N. Critchlow, A. Morgan, F. Dobbie   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Acyclic Gambling Games [PDF]

Mathematics of Operations Research, 2018
We consider two-player, zero-sum stochastic games in which each player controls the player’s own state variable living in a compact metric space. The terminology comes from gambling problems in which the state of a player represents its wealth in a casino.
Rida Laraki, Rida Laraki, Jérôme Renault   +2 more
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A preliminary adaptation of the Problem Gambling Severity Index for Indigenous Australians: internal reliability and construct validity

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2014
Objective: This paper describes the process employed to adapt the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) for use with Indigenous Australian populations.
Sue Bertossa, Peter Harvey, David Smith, Alwin Chong   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk and protective factors for the development of gambling-related harms and problems among Australian sexual minority men

BMC Psychology, 2021
Background Sexual minority men (SMM) often experience stressful social environments dominated by stigma and discrimination. SMM are typically more likely than heterosexual men to engage in certain risky behaviours such as problem gambling.
Rachel Bush, Alex M. T. Russell, Petra K. Staiger, Andrea Waling, Nicki A. Dowling   +4 more
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A pilot study of problem gambling among student online gamblers: mood states as predictors of problematic behaviour [PDF]

, 2009
Within the last decade, interest in online gambling has increased. This pilot study examined online gambling among students to identify the extent to which student Internet gamblers manifest a propensity for problem gambling and to understand if mood ...
Farnsworth, WF, Griffiths, MD, Matthews, N   +2 more
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