Gender differences in adolescent gambling.
Gender differences in adolescent gambling.
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10.1080/10401230500295636
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2005-10-01
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Potenza, Marc N
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Desai, Rani A;Maciejewski, Paul K;Potenza, Marc N
背景：虽然青少年赌博与一系列风险行为有关，但与青少年男孩相比，青少年女孩赌博的相关性知之甚少。方法：我们通过逻辑回归检验了1998年赌博影响和行为研究（GIBS）（1)中具有全国代表性的16岁和17岁青少年样本（n = 534），以调查性别对以下方面的影响：1）赌博与精神症状之间的关联；2)赌博态度与行为。结果：赌博与男孩和女孩的酒精使用和滥用/依赖率升高有关，仅与女孩的焦虑/抑郁有关。据报道，男孩赌徒比女孩赌徒赌博更严重，赌博问题的发生率也更高。结论：青少年赌博可能与女孩比男孩更严重的精神症状有关，尽管未来的研究需要复制和扩展这些发现。性别因素在理解青少年赌博和赌博与青少年精神疾病之间的关系是重要的。
BACKGROUND: Although adolescent gambling has been linked to a wide array of risk behaviors, little is known regarding the correlates of gambling in adolescent girls as compared with adolescent boys.METHODS: We examined by logistic regression a nationally representative U.S. sample (n = 534) of 16- and 17-year-olds from the 1998 Gambling Impact and Behavior Study (GIBS) (1) to investigate the influence of gender on: 1) the association between gambling and psychiatric symptomatology; and, 2) gambling attitudes and behaviors.RESULTS: Gambling was associated with elevated rates of alcohol use and abuse/dependence in both boys and girls, and dysphoria/depression in girls only. Boy gamblers reported heavier gambling and higher rates of gambling problems than did girl gamblers.CONCLUSIONS: Adolescent gambling may be associated with more severe psychiatric symptoms in girls than in boys, though future research will be needed to replicate and extend these findings. Gender considerations are important in understanding youth gambling and the relationship between gambling and psychiatric disorders in adolescents.