LaBrie Richard A, Shaffer Howard J, LaPlante Debi A, Wechsler Henry
Division on Addictions, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
J Am Coll Health. 2003 Sep-Oct;52(2):53-62. doi: 10.1080/07448480309595725.
The authors report findings from the first national survey of gambling among college students. They collected information from 10,765 students attending 119 scientifically selected colleges included in the 2001 Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study (CAS), which indicated that 42% of responding students gambled in the last school year and 2.6% gambled weekly or more frequently. These findings contradict the widely held opinion based on previous studies that gambling is prevalent among college students. Previous studies used convenience samples that might have overestimated the risk for gambling problems. Male students and students of legal age (> or = 21 y) were more likely than others to gamble. Availability of gambling, measured by the number of types of gambling venues located in the schools' states, influenced their decisions to gamble. The concordance of characteristics associated with both gambling and binge drinking suggested a disposition to take risks that is independent of the risk objects.
作者报告了首次全国大学生赌博调查的结果。他们从参加2001年哈佛公共卫生学院酒精研究（CAS）的119所经科学挑选的大学的10765名学生中收集了信息，结果显示，42%的受访学生在上一学年参与过赌博，2.6%的学生每周或更频繁地赌博。这些发现与基于以往研究得出的普遍观点相矛盾，即赌博在大学生中很普遍。以往的研究使用的是便利样本，可能高估了赌博问题的风险。男生和达到法定年龄（≥21岁）的学生比其他学生更有可能参与赌博。以学校所在州的赌博场所类型数量衡量的赌博便利性，影响了他们的赌博决定。与赌博和狂饮相关的特征的一致性表明存在一种独立于风险对象的冒险倾向。
