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Environmental Correlates of Gambling Behavior in Urban Adolescents

Abril 1, 2007 by in ESTUDOS E PUBLICAÇÕES, Jogo de Menores No Comments

Título: Environmental Correlates of Gambling Behavior in Urban Adolescents
Autores: Emerson M. Wickwire, James P. Whelan, Andrew W. Meyers, David M. Murray
Data: 2007

Abstract

The present study considered the relation between adolescent gambling behavior and the perceived environment, the component of Jessor and Jessor’s (1977) Problem Behavior Theory that assesses the ways that adolescents perceive the attitudes and behaviors of parents and peers. The predominantly African-American sample included 188 sophomores from two urban public high schools. Using the South Oaks Gambling Screen-Revised for Adolescents to assess gambling risk, rates of both at-risk (20.7%) and problem (12.8%) gambling were found to be high. Boys displayed more gambling problems than did girls. The perceived environment accounted for significant variance in gambling problems and frequency, with proximal components displaying stronger relationships than distal components. Perceiving parent gambling and friend models for problem behavior were positively correlated with gambling problems, and friend models were positively related to gambling frequency. Among girls, family support was positively related to gambling problems. Among boys, this relation was negative.

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