Understanding the impact of EGM Jackpots on gambling intensity may allow targeted strategies to be implemented that facilitate harm minimisation by acting to reduce losses of gamblers who play frequently, while maintaining the enjoyment and excitement of potential jackpots. The current study investigated the influences of Hidden and Mystery Jackpots on EGM gambling intensity. In a Hidden Jackpot, the prize value is not shown to the player, although the existence of a jackpot prize is advertised. In a Mystery Jackpot, the jackpot triggering state of the machine is unknown to players…
Month: August 2015
House of Cards—An analysis of Macao’s resident support for tourism and casino development
Tourism contribution to Macao’s gross domestic product in 2013 was 86% positioning it as a global leader in terms of reliance on tourism revenues, to which casinos contribute over 90%. Most Macao residents are linked to tourism’s economic success yet this study shows the rapid development has created negative sentiment toward the industry and specifically casinos. While acknowledging economic benefits, this study showed residents were concerned more about traffic congestion, overcrowding, and living costs with a greater wish for improved public transportation and leisure offerings and less casino development emphasis. A tourism development strategy firmly focused on tourism diversification issues was urgently suggested.
eSport Betting: The Intersection of Gaming and Gambling | Abstract
Impact of Gambling Addiction
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Spouses of problem gamblers suffer from a wide range of symptoms that are consistent with traumatic stress that are scarcely identified and rarely treated. A mixed methods study evaluated spousal symptoms, current spousal interventions, and clinical barriers to spousal symptom treatment. The emotional impact of gambling addiction on spouses was evaluated by National Certified Gambling Counselors through survey and questionnaire. Spousal symptoms were investigated via a quantitative survey, while clinician attitudes, experience, comfort, and interventions were conducted via both a qualitative telephone interview and a quantitative survey. Data obtained from 44 surveys and 6 questionnaires revealed a significant proportion of counselors largely without adequate tools for interventions with spouses, despite results also noting a significantly high prevalence of problematic emotional spousal symptoms including: betrayal, emotional withdrawal, numbing, intense anger, depressed mood, and anxiety, and feeling victimized.
Gambling advocacy: lessons from tobacco, alcohol and junk food
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Objective: To explore the attitudes and opinions of public health experts in gambling and related unhealthy commodity industries towards the tactics used by the gambling industry to prevent reform and the advocacy responses to these tactics. Methods: In-depth interviews (30–60 minutes) with a convenience sample of 15 public health experts and stakeholders with a public health approach to gambling (n=10), or other unhealthy commodity industries (food, alcohol, tobacco, n=5)…
The Relationship Between Problem Gambling and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Abstract: Recent studies indicate that treatment-seeking problem gamblers display elevated rates of ADHD and that adolescents who screen positive for ADHD are more likely to engage in gambling, develop gambling problems, and experience a greater severity in gambling problems. This study aimed to (a) compare the prevalence of ADHD in treatment-seeking problem gamblers to the general population; (b) investigate the relationships between ADHD and problem gambling severity, cluster B personality disorders, motor impulsivity, alcohol use, substance use, gender, and age; and (c) investigate the degree to which these factors moderate the relationship between ADHD and problem gambling severity.
The use of social media in gambling
The purpose of this project was to identify and describe the availability and promotion of gambling and social casino game opportunities via social media; whether there has been a transition between social casino game play and gambling; and the potential for social media to be used to promote responsible gambling…
The Relationship Between Alcohol and Gambling Behaviours
This multi-disciplinary literature review explores the literature on gambling and alcohol behaviours in the UK including Wales and internationally. In the light of concerns expressed about significant health problems associated with problem gambling and alcohol addiction the review considers the topic from a sociological and cultural perspective as well as from a clinical and treatment focus. Gambling and alcohol research and literature is also reviewed from the perspective of gambling operators and their corporate social responsibility and responsible gambling practices. The review finally proposes recommendation for further research in this field…
Gambling on History: Shaping Narratives in Native Public Spaces
Our presentation today is drawn from an extended work in progress begun with a simple question: Have profits from Indian gaming helped to establish or expand Native museums and cultural centers as venues for cultural self-representation?…
Video Lottery is the Most Harmful Form of Gambling in Canada
This paper summarizes the degree to which different forms of legal gambling contribute to Problem and Pathological Gambling (PPG) in Canada. Legal gambling activities were compared using meta-analysis of publicly available data concerning Canada’s legal gambling industry. The majority of revenues in the decade spanning 2002–2012 were drawn from Video Lottery Terminals and casino slot machines. Population surveys indicated that three quarters of Canadians reported some form of past-year gambling participation, but most did not play Electronic Gambling Machines…
New Gambling Research 