Graduate School, Bangkok University, Rama 4 Road, Bangkok, 10110, Thailand,
J Gambl Stud. 2014 Sep;30(3):685-96. doi: 10.1007/s10899-013-9372-y.
Our study hypothesizes that Thai amateur golfers gamble on their game because of peer pressure and their golf self-efficacy. To support our hypothesis, we conducted a study to examine the mediating effect of golf self-efficacy on the peer pressure-golf gambling relationship among 387 amateur golfers in Thailand. Peer pressure was operationally defined as fellow players' influence on the individual golfer to gamble; golf self-efficacy as the judgment of the golfer's skills to play golf; and golf gambling as the frequency and amounts of gambling. Regression analysis with bootstrapping was used to test the mediation effect of golf self-efficacy on the peer pressure-golf gambling relationship. The results support our hypothesis; peer pressure predicted golf gambling, and the indirect effect of peer pressure to golf gambling through the mediation of golf self-efficacy was significant. The results support the influence of peer pressure on gambling, and the social cognitive theory reciprocal relationship model.
我们的研究假设泰国业余高尔夫球手在比赛中赌博是因为同伴压力和他们的高尔夫自我效能感。为了支持我们的假设，我们进行了一项研究，以检验在泰国 387 名业余高尔夫球手中，高尔夫自我效能感对同伴压力-高尔夫赌博关系的中介作用。同伴压力被定义为同组球员对个体球员赌博的影响；高尔夫自我效能感是指球员打高尔夫球的技能判断；而高尔夫赌博是指赌博的频率和金额。我们使用带有自举的回归分析来检验高尔夫自我效能感对同伴压力-高尔夫赌博关系的中介效应。结果支持了我们的假设；同伴压力预测了高尔夫赌博，同伴压力通过高尔夫自我效能感对高尔夫赌博的间接影响是显著的。结果支持了同伴压力对赌博的影响，以及社会认知理论的互惠关系模型。
