Returning to the virtual casino: a contemporary study of actual online casino gambling

IF 2.5 3区 心理学 Q2 SUBSTANCE ABUSE International Gambling Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-29 DOI:10.1080/14459795.2021.1985581
Timothy C. Edson, Matthew A. Tom, Eric R. Louderback, Sarah E. Nelson, Debi A. LaPlante
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ABSTRACT There is a greater need for contemporary research to empirically examine actual internet casino gambling behavior with valid data. To fill this gap in research, the current study examined two years (1 February 2015 to 31 January 2017) of prospective longitudinal data from 4,424 actual online casino gambling subscribers to one of the E.U.’s largest internet gambling services, including novel analyses of depositing and withdrawal behaviors. We found that today’s online casino gambling behaviors are similar to those observed 10 years ago in the E.U., with similarly small proportions of the player pool exhibiting more extreme gambling involvement than the rest. Some unique gambling behaviors (e.g. net loss), depositing behaviors (e.g. credit card use), and withdrawal behaviors (e.g. reversed withdrawals) distinguished more involved bettors from typical bettors. Our results suggest that, like a decade prior, most online casino players in our sample bet modest amounts and play relatively infrequently, yet a small percentage (approximately 5%) engage at disproportionately high and potentially risky levels. These findings are based on data from a single online casino operator and bettors in our sample might have gambled with other operators during the study period.
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回归虚拟赌场:对真实在线赌场赌博的当代研究
摘要当代研究更需要用有效的数据实证检验实际的互联网赌场赌博行为。为了填补这一研究空白,目前的研究调查了两年(2015年2月1日至2017年1月31日)的前瞻性纵向数据,这些数据来自欧盟最大的互联网赌博服务之一的4424名实际在线赌场赌博用户,包括对存款和取款行为的新分析。我们发现,今天的在线赌场赌博行为与10年前在欧盟观察到的行为相似,同样小比例的玩家比其他人表现出更极端的赌博参与,退出行为(例如反向退出)将更多参与的投注者与典型的投注者区分开来。我们的研究结果表明,与十年前一样,我们样本中的大多数在线赌场玩家下注金额适中,玩得相对较少,但也有一小部分(约5%)玩家的参与程度过高,存在潜在风险。这些发现基于单个在线赌场运营商的数据,我们样本中的投注者可能在研究期间与其他运营商进行过赌博。
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