Alcohol and gambling pathology among U.S. adults: prevalence, demographic patterns and comorbidity.

Welte, John W.; Barnes, Grace M.; Wieczorek, William F.; Tidwell, Marie-Cecile O.; Parker, John C.

doi:10.15288/jsa.2001.62.706

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“…Blacks are the least likely to have gambled, but Black gamblers are among the highest in gambling involvement. This replicates the finding in our national adult survey (Welte et al 2001), and also is similar to the findings in general population surveys with respect to alcohol, which invariably find Blacks with a high percentage of abstainers, but may also find relatively high rates of alcohol abuse among Blacks who are drinkers (Welte et al 2001). We have a small sample of American Indians, so it is difficult to obtain a statistically significant contrast.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Low SES respondents are most likely to have abstained from gambling, just as many studies have shown them to be the most likely to have abstained from alcohol (Welte et al 2001). However, among gamblers, our results show a clear tendency for gambling involvement and negative consequences to increase as SES declines.…”

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confidence: 48%

“…Males were much higher than females on every measure of gambling. This was not the case in our 2000 adult survey, in which the "gender gap" in gambling involvement was much narrower (Welte et al 2001). It seems likely that females' gambling involvement tends to emerge in adulthood, while male involvement can be high in adolescence.…”

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confidence: 61%

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The Prevalence of Problem Gambling Among U.S. Adolescents and Young Adults: Results from a National Survey

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A random telephone survey was conducted with a representative sample of 2,274 U.S. residents aged 14-21. The prevalence of problem gambling, as measured by the SOGS-RA, was 2.1%. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of the respondents had gambled in the past year, and 11% had gambled more often than twice per week. Males had much higher gambling involvement than females, and gambling involvement increased among older respondents. Blacks were less likely than average to have gambled in the past year, but if they gambled, they were more likely to do so frequently. Low SES respondents were less likely to have gambled in the past year, but if they gambled, they were more likely to be problem gamblers. Life transitions that are associated with assuming adult roles (employment, living independently of parents, non-student status) are also associated with greater gambling involvement. The rates of problem and pathological gambling were lower than those in an adult survey conducted earlier, when measured with the same questionnaire.

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The Prevalence of Problem Gambling Among U.S. Adolescents and Young Adults: Results from a National Survey

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“…For example "being older and wiser" (Abbott et al 2004), marital status, (Nelson et al 2006;Productivity Commission 1999;Welte et al 2001) and support from family and friends (Avery and Davis 2008;Oei and Gordon 2008;Petry 2003) which may be a response from others to a process of reappraisal and the development of a commitment to behaviour change by the gambler (Thygesen and Hodgins 2003) . Participants identified different support networks that increased their self-efficacy to resist engaging in gambling behaviours and halting a lapse becoming a relapse.…”

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“…Higher income with mean household income for low risk gamblers about 15 percent higher than pathological gamblers (Gernstein et al 1999) and having religious beliefs (Diaz 2000;Hodge et al 2007) were aslo associated with reduced gambling. Furthermore, those who are older (Nelson et al 2006;Welte et al 2001), female (Productivity Commission 1999), have dependents (Worthington et al 2007), are university graduates (Callan et al 2008;Nelson et al 2006) and are small town residents (Callan et al 2008) also had lower rates of problem gambling. Those living alone, sole parents, some ethnic populations (North African and the Middle Eastern), socioeconomic disadvantage and some forms of gambling are associated with reduced gambling expenditure (Worthington et al 2007).…”

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