School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia.
J Gambl Stud. 2018 Mar;34(1):55-71. doi: 10.1007/s10899-017-9692-4.
This paper examines the relationship between gambling behavior and subjective wellbeing. It is often asserted that populations consist of different types of gamblers: those for whom gambling is a harmless leisure activity and those (pathological/problem gamblers) for whom the activity has harmful effects. One might, therefore, assume that subjective wellbeing will be negativity associated with an individual's level of gambling addiction. Alternatively, gamblers may choose to gamble because they derive utility from participating in this activity and so the relationship between happiness and gambling might be positively correlated. In this paper we test this association, empirically, using data from the 2010 British Gambling Prevalence Survey. The statistically significant findings from this analysis support the hypothesis that individual wellbeing falls as gambling disorder increases.
本文考察了赌博行为与主观幸福感之间的关系。人们常说，人群中存在不同类型的赌徒：一种是把赌博当作无害的休闲活动的人，另一种是（病态/问题）赌徒，他们的活动有不良影响。因此，人们可能会认为，个人的赌博成瘾程度与主观幸福感呈负相关。或者，赌徒可能会选择赌博，因为他们从参与这项活动中获得了效用，所以幸福感和赌博之间的关系可能是正相关的。在本文中，我们使用 2010 年英国赌博流行情况调查的数据对此进行了实证检验。这一分析的统计显著结果支持了这样一种假设，即个体幸福感随着赌博障碍的增加而下降。
