Predictors of Gambling Behavior among High School Students

Hyun Sook Park; Sun Young Jung

doi:10.12934/jkpmhn.2011.20.3.219

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Park and Jung: Predictors of Gambling Behavior among High School Students

Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2011; 20(3): 219-232.

Published online: 30 September 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12934/jkpmhn.2011.20.3.219

Predictors of Gambling Behavior among High School Students

Hyun Sook Park¹, Sun Young Jung²

¹Professor, College of Nursing, Catholic University of Daegu, Korea.

²Doctoral Student, College of Nursing, Catholic University of Daegu, Korea.

Address reprint requests to: Jung, Sun Young, College of Nursing, Catholic University of Daegu, 3056-6 Daemyeong 4-dong, Nam-gu, Daegu 705-718, Korea. Tel: 82-10-8952-1646, Fax: 82-53-650-4392, jungsy@cu.ac.kr

Received 12 August 2011 Revised 17 September 2011 Accepted 17 September 2011

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to investigate personal, family, and community factors that affect gambling behavior of high school students.

Methods

The participants were 564 students from 7 high schools. Data were obtained from these participants between July 6 and July 20, 2011 by using self-report questionnaires. The data were analyzed using the PASW 18.0 program.

Results

Of the participants, 88.8% were in the non-gambling group, 11.2% in the risk for gambling group. Significant factors related to gambling behavior were 7 personal factors: alcohol consumption, suicidal ideation, experience of being a runway, irrational gambling beliefs, risk taking, stress, and self-control; 4 family factors: parental alcohol abuse, mother who gamble, sibling who gamble, and parental monitoring; and 2 community factors: peer who gamble and number of gambling peer.

Conclusion

The outcomes of this study indicate that in order to decrease high school students' gambling behavior, it is necessary to design intervention programs that managing personal, family, and community factors of gambling behavior.

Keywords: Schools, Students, Gambling, Behavior

Figures and Tables

Table 1

General Characteristics of Subjects (N=565)

Table 2

The Differences of Gambling Behavior of Subjects by Personal, Family, and Community Factors (N=565)

^†Fisher's exact test.

Table 3

Personal, Family, and Community Factors Associated with Gambling Behavior for Subjects Using Simple Logistic Regression (N=565)

OR=odds ratio; CI=confidence interval.

Table 4

Factors Associated with Gambling Behavior for Subjects Using Multiple Logistic Regression (N=565)

OR=odds ratio; CI=confidence interval.

Notes

This work was supported by the Catholic University of Daegu Research Grant of 2011.

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