Learning to gamble: early gambling experiences among young people in Denmark
Learning to gamble: early gambling experiences among young people in Denmark
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DOI：
10.1080/13676261.2014.933197
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发表时间：
2015-02-07
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Reith, Gerda
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作者：
Kristiansen, Soren;Trabjerg, Maria Camilla;Reith, Gerda
本文介绍的结果，从第一阶段的纵向定性研究赌博的年轻人在丹麦。这项纵向研究旨在捕捉年轻赌徒的轨迹，并探讨社会和文化因素和过程如何影响年轻人的赌博生涯。分析的第一阶段特别强调年轻人对赌博的介绍以及这些早期赌博经历的社会背景。从理论上讲，这第一项研究是由一个象征性的互动的方法。我们的结论是，早期的经验与赌博的社会介导的，重要的社会背景，如家庭和同龄人群体形成这些早期经验的重要背景。我们的证据表明，参与赌博是一个社会过程，涉及技能和知识的转移，新手学习如何玩，并赋予赌博特定的意义。总的来说，我们的研究结果表明，年轻人开始赌博不是因为纯粹的个人特征或越轨的动机，而是通过重要的社交网络内的社会过程。对预防和进一步研究的意义进行了简要讨论。
This article presents results from the first phase of a longitudinal qualitative study of gambling among young people in Denmark. The longitudinal study is designed to capture the trajectories of young gamblers and to explore how social and cultural factors and processes impact on young people's gambling careers. The first stage of analysis places a special emphasis on young people's introduction to gambling and the social contexts of these early gambling experiences. Theoretically, this first study is guided by a symbolic interactionist approach. We conclude that early experiences with gambling are socially mediated and that significant social contexts such as the family and peer groups form important contexts of these early experiences. Our evidence suggest that becoming engaged in gambling is a social process involving a transfer of skills and knowledge in which novices learn how to play and to attribute specific meanings to gambling. Overall, our findings indicate that young people start gambling not because of purely individual characteristics or deviant motivations but through social processes within significant social networks. Implications for prevention and further research are briefly discussed.