Electronic Gaming Machine Consumers' Understanding of Past & Future Spending: Associations with Risk, Impulsivity, Self-Control, & Problematic Gambling.

ABSTRACT: An individual's ability to make informed decisions about future gambling expenditure requires an awareness of affordability and likely return, and hence an accurate understanding of their past outcomes. Electronic gaming machines (EGMs) have been criticised for having structural characteristics that erode informed decision-making (e.g., loses disguised as wins, display of credits vs. currency). Here we investigate individual's understanding of their recent and future  EGM spending. Survey responses for 187 Australian EGM customers (age range:18-81, 57% female) were linked to their account data held by a gambling venue. Few customers accurately recalled and predicted their past/future 30-day expenditure to within a 10% margin of error, including net outcome (i.e., accurate recall [5.5%] or

SUBMITTER: Santos T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12657582 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature