Gambling Problems in Youth
Howard J. Shaffer, Ph. D. More than 20 years ago, I first noted that young people in North America were growing up in a context of legalized gambling for their entire lifetime. By the 1980s, for young people, gambling had become an average and expectable part of the social landscape. Amid legal opportunities to gamble in all but two of the United States and with illicit opportunities to gamble in every state, gambling is now ubiquitous in America. With few social sa- tions to limit a young personas interest in gamblingalike their adult co- terpartsayoung people now gamble in larger numbers and for seemingly higher stakes. Gradually, gambling-related problems became more visible for young people and the culture slowly but increasingly took notice. By the late 1990s, every sector of American and Canadian society had started to c- sider the effects of legalized gambling on youth. For different reasons, r- resentatives of the gambling and health care industries led the movement to prevent youthful gambling and reconcile existing problems whenever p- sible. Scientists also recognized that there was much to be learned by stu- ing young gamblers. Toward the end of the 20th century, there was a rapid increase in gambling research focusing on developmental issues; half of what is known about gambling emerged during the 1990s. This volume represents an important event in the continuing growth of a field.... Blumea 1991; McCormicka 1994; Winters aamp; Andersona 2000) and psychiatric comorbidity (Crockford aamp; el-Guebalya 1998). ... of winning while females are more likely to seek escape from personal problems (see the reviews by Deverensky aamp; Guptaa 2004; ... These data create a complexa complicated collage of factors contributing to the initiation of gambling problems that ... 1991; Jessora Van Den Bosa Vanderryna Costaa aamp; Turbina 1995; Schulenberga Maggsa Steinmana aamp; Zucker a 2001).
| Title | : | Gambling Problems in Youth |
| Author | : | Jeffrey L. Derevensky, Rina Gupta |
| Publisher | : | Springer Science & Business Media - 2006-01-16 |
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