Gambling and problem gambling in a sample of university students

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dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Robert J.
dc.contributor.authorConnolly, Dennis
dc.contributor.authorWood, Robert T.
dc.contributor.authorNowatzki, Nadine R.
dc.date.accessioned2007-07-18T21:10:03Z
dc.date.available2007-07-18T21:10:03Z
dc.date.issued2006-04
dc.description.abstractUniversity students from southern Alberta (n = 585) were administered a questionnaire to assess their gambling behaviour. Seventy-two percent reported gambling in the past 6 months, with the most common types being lotteries and instant win tickets (44%) and games of skill against other people (34%). Most students who gambled spent very little time and money doing so (median time spent = 1.5 hrs; median amount of money spent = $0). While gambling is an innocuous activity for most, a significant minority of students are heavy gamblers who experience adverse consequences from it. Seven and one-half percent of students were classified as problem or pathological gamblers, a rate significantly higher than in the general Alberta adult population. The characteristics that best differentiated problem gamblers from non-problem gamblers were more positive attitudes toward gambling, ethnicity (41% of Asian gamblers were problem gamblers), university major (kinesiology, education, management), superior ability to calculate gambling odds, and older age.en
dc.description.peer-reviewYesen
dc.description.sponsorshipAlberta Gaming Research Instituteen
dc.identifier.citationWilliams, R. J., Connolly, D., Wood, R.T., & Nowatzki, N. (2006). Gambling and problem gambling in a sample of university students. Journal of Gambling Issues, 16.en
dc.identifier.issn1494-5185
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/377
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCentre for Addiction and Mental Healthen
dc.publisher.departmentMathematics and Computer Scienceen
dc.publisher.departmentSociologyen
dc.publisher.facultySchool of Health Sciencesen
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Lethbridgeen
dc.publisher.urlhttps://dx.doi.org/10.4309/jgi.2006.16.19
dc.subjectGamblingen
dc.subjectProblem Gamblingen
dc.subjectUniversity Studentsen
dc.titleGambling and problem gambling in a sample of university studentsen
dc.typeArticleen
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