Vegni Nicoletta, Melchiori Francesco Maria, D'Ardia Caterina, Prestano Claudia, Canu Massimo, Piergiovanni Giulia, Di Filippo Gloria
Department of Psychology, Niccolò Cusano University, Rome, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2019 Jun 12;10:1287. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01287. eCollection 2019.
Although gambling was initially characterized as a specific phenomenon of adulthood, the progressive lowering of the age of onset, combined with earlier and increased access to the game, led researchers to study the younger population as well. According to the literature, those who develop a gambling addiction in adulthood begin to play significantly before than those who play without developing a real disorder. In this perspective, the main hypothesis of the study was that the phenomenon of gambling behavior in this younger population is already associated with specific characteristics that could lead to identify risk factors. In this paper, are reported the results of an exploratory survey on an Italian sample of 2,734 preadolescents, aged between 11 and 14 years, who replied to a self-report structured questionnaire developed . Firstly, data analysis highlighted an association between the gambling behavior and individual or ecological factors, as well as a statistically significant difference in the perception of gambling between preadolescent, who play games of chance, and the others. Similarly, the binomial logistic regression performed to ascertain the effects of seven key variables on the likelihood that participants gambled with money showed a statistically significant effect for six of them. The relevant findings of this first study address a literature gap and suggest the need to investigate the preadolescent as a cohort in which it identifies predictive factors of gambling behavior in order to design effective and structured preventive interventions.
尽管赌博最初被视为成年人的一种特定现象，但发病年龄的逐渐降低，再加上更早且更多地接触赌博游戏，促使研究人员也开始对较年轻人群进行研究。根据文献记载，那些在成年后染上赌博成瘾的人开始赌博的时间要比那些未染上真正赌博障碍的人早得多。从这个角度来看，该研究的主要假设是，较年轻人群中的赌博行为现象已经与可能导致识别风险因素的特定特征相关联。本文报告了一项针对2734名年龄在11至14岁之间的意大利青少年样本进行的探索性调查结果，这些青少年对一份自行编制的结构化问卷进行了回复。首先，数据分析突出了赌博行为与个体或生态因素之间的关联，以及在玩机会游戏的青少年与其他青少年之间对赌博认知的统计学显著差异。同样，为确定七个关键变量对参与者用钱赌博可能性的影响而进行的二项逻辑回归分析显示，其中六个变量具有统计学显著影响。这项初步研究的相关发现填补了文献空白，并表明有必要将青少年作为一个群体进行调查，从中识别赌博行为的预测因素，以便设计有效且结构化的预防干预措施。
