Skin Gambling Contributes to Gambling Problems and Harm After Controlling for Other Forms of Traditional Gambling.

ABSTRACT: Esports betting and skin gambling involve betting on the outcomes of video game competitions and/or using virtual currencies for betting. The present study evaluated a conceptual model linking video game involvement, video-game related gambling, traditional gambling, and gambling problems and harm. Data were collected via a cross-sectional online survey with 737 participants aged 18 + who engaged in esports cash betting (n = 576), esports skin betting (n = 184), or skin gambling on games of chance (n = 330). The findings highlighted the distinctly different relationships esports cash betting versus skin gambling had with traditional gambling involvement and harmful gambling. Gambling with skins on games of chance was predictive of gambling problems and gambling harm after controlling for p

SUBMITTER: Greer N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9981708 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature