Lottery-Purchasing Adolescents: Gambling Perceptions, Problems, and Characteristics.

ABSTRACT: Gambling on the lottery is a prevalent behavior, and lottery products are increasingly available in online and electronic formats. As lottery-purchasing is prevalent in adolescents, this study systematically examined relationships between lottery-purchasing and problem-gambling severity and gambling perceptions and attitudes, as well as differences in the relationships between problem-gambling severity and measures of health/functioning and gambling characteristics among lottery-purchasing groups. Participants were 1517 Connecticut high-school adolescents with past-year gambling. Chi-square and logistic regression models were conducted, and interactions between problem-gambling severity and lottery-purchasing status on multiple outcomes were determined. Lottery-purchasing, compared to non-

SUBMITTER: Zhai ZW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8326295 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature