Gambling-Related Attitudes and Behaviors in Adolescents Having Received Instant (Scratch) Lottery Tickets as Gifts
Gambling-Related Attitudes and Behaviors in Adolescents Having Received Instant (Scratch) Lottery Tickets as Gifts
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jadohealth.2012.07.013
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发表时间：
2013-04-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Potenza, Marc N.
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作者：
Kundu, Priya V.;Pilver, Corey E.;Potenza, Marc N.
目的：即时（刮刮）彩票赌博在青少年中很流行。先前的研究尚未确定青少年的赌博行为和对赌博的态度是否会受到收到刮刮乐彩票作为礼物的影响。方法：使用双变量方法和逻辑回归分析对康涅狄格州 2,002 名高中生去年赌博的横断面调查数据进行分析。研究了赌博问题严重程度与彩票礼物状态之间的交互作用。结果：与没有收到礼物的青少年相比，收到刮刮彩票作为礼物的青少年更有可能报告问题赌博的特征，为自己购买刮刮彩票，以及购买和接收其他类型的彩票；他们也不太可能报告父母不赞成赌博，也不太可能认为预防赌博的努力很重要。在彩票礼物组中，较晚（>= 15 岁）开始赌博的年龄与赌博问题的严重程度呈负相关（比值比 [OR] = .38），但在非礼物组中则不然（OR = 0.91），通过礼物状态交互作用产生显着的严重程度。在礼物组和非礼物组中，与赌博问题严重程度相关的其他学业、健康和赌博相关因素相似。结论：对于青少年来说，在童年或青春期收到刮刮乐彩票作为礼物与风险/问题赌博以及与赌博相关的态度、行为和观点相关，表明他们对赌博的接受程度更高。收到刮刮乐彩票可能会在多大程度上促进赌博行为和赌博问题的发展，值得考虑。教育、预防和治疗策略应纳入与未成年人接收赌博产品有关的调查结果。 (C) 2013 年青少年健康与医学协会。版权所有。
Objective: Instant (scratch) lottery ticket gambling is popular among adolescents. Prior research has not determined whether adolescents' gambling behavior and attitudes toward gambling are influenced by the receipt of scratch lottery tickets as gifts.Method: Cross-sectional survey data from 2,002 Connecticut high school students with past-year gambling were analyzed using bivariate approaches and logistic regression analyses. Interactions between gambling-problem severity and lottery-gift status were examined in relation to multiple outcomes.Results: Adolescents who received a scratch lottery ticket as a gift compared with those who did not were more likely to report features of problem gambling, buy scratch lottery tickets for themselves, and buy and receive other types of lottery tickets; they were also less likely to report parental disapproval of gambling and to see gambling prevention efforts as important. Later (>= 15 years) age-at-gambling-onset was inversely linked to gambling-problem severity in the lottery gift group (odds ratio [OR] = .38) but not in the nongift group (OR = .91), yielding a significant severity by gift status interaction. Other academic, health, and gambling-related correlates of gambling-problem severity were similar in the gift and nongift groups.Conclusions: For adolescents, the receipt of scratch lottery tickets as gifts during childhood or adolescence was associated with risky/problematic gambling and with gambling-related attitudes, behaviors, and views suggesting greater gambling acceptability. The extent to which the receipt of scratch lottery tickets may promote gambling behaviors and the development of gambling problems warrants consideration. Education, prevention, and treatment strategies should incorporate findings relating to receipt of gambling products by underage individuals. (C) 2013 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. All rights reserved.