Changes to the playing field: A contemporary study of actual European online sports betting.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Online sports wagering is a popular and still growing gambling activity around the world. Like other types of gambling, it can lead to problems that include devastating financial, social, and health-related harms. The first analysis of actual online sports wagering activity (LaBrie et al., 2007) suggested that levels of financial and time involvement were more moderate than anticipated from earlier self-report studies. However, these findings are now more than a decade old.

Methods

The current study examined actual online sports wagering activity of a similar cohort of 32,262 gamblers who subscribed to a European online betting platform in February 2015 to understand how sports betting might have changed in ten years. Measures included subscriber characte

SUBMITTER: Nelson SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8997203 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature