Pathological gambling among high school students

✍ Scribed by Lesieur, Henry R.; Klein, Robert

• Book ID: 122934586
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 603 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0306-4603
• DOI: 10.1016/0306-4603(87)90019-0

✦ Synopsis

Eight hundred and ninety-two high school students from four New Jersey high schools were given a questionnaire concerning their gambling behavior. Ninety-one percent of the students had gambled at least once in their lifetime, 86% gambled in the last year and 32% gambled at least once a week. Using an index which was validated in other research (Lesieur, Blume, & Zoppa, 1986) 5.7% of the students showed clear signs of pathological gambling. The pathological gambling signs index was found to be correlated with sex, parental gambling problems, grade average, and the extent of gambling by the student. *Executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey at the time of the study. An earlier version of this paper was presented-at the Sixth NationaT Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking, Atlantic City, New je&ey, December, 1984. We would like to thank Marty Rimm for his help in distributing the questionnaire.

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