Trial reportJournal of gambling studies2012
Gambling and adverse life events among urban adolescents.
Trial report in Journal of gambling studies, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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16 citing papers in PubMed.
- Parental monitoring trajectories and gambling among a longitudinal cohort of urban youth.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2014Trial
- Gambling and sexual behaviors in African-American adolescents.Addictive behaviors · 2014Trial
- The Prevalence and Predictors of Problem Gambling Among Adults in New Mexico: A Sociodemographic Analysis.Journal of gambling studies · 2025Article
- The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Problem Gambling in New Mexico.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2023Article
- The Relationship Between Gambling Disorder, Stressful Life Events, Gambling-Related Cognitive Distortions, Difficulty in Emotion Regulation, and Self-Control.Journal of gambling studies · 2023Article
- Loot Boxes and Gambling: Similarities and Dissimilarities in Risk and Protective Factors.Journal of gambling studies · 2021Article
- Gambling, Substance Use and Violence in Male and Female Adolescents.Journal of gambling studies · 2020Article
- Stressful life events and gambling: The roles of coping and impulsivity among college students.Addictive behaviors · 2020Article
- The Gambling Factors Related with the Level of Adolescent Problem Gambler.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Risk Factors Associated With Gambling Involvement among a National Sample of African American and European American Young Adults.Journal of substance abuse and alcoholism · 2018Article
- Stress moderates the relationships between problem-gambling severity and specific psychopathologies.Psychiatry research · 2018Article
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Disordered Gambling: Assessing the Mediating Role of Emotion Dysregulation.Journal of gambling studies · 2017Article
- Gambling in the Landscape of Adversity in Youth: Reflections from Men Who Live with Poverty and Homelessness.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016Article
- Examining potential school contextual influences on gambling among high school youth.The American journal on addictionsArticle
- Association between adverse life events and addictive behaviors among male and female adolescents.The American journal on addictionsArticle
- Does adolescent gambling co-occur with young fatherhood?The American journal on addictionsArticle
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Abstract
This study explored the cross sectional association between adverse life events and gambling in a sample of 515 urban adolescents (average age 17, 55% male, 88% African American). Approximately half of the sample had gambled in the past year (51%); 78% of the gamblers gambled monthly and 39% had a gambling-related problem. On the other hand, 88% of the sample had experienced at least one life event in the past year, and those experiencing events tended to live in more disadvantaged neighborhoods. The mere acknowledgement of experiencing a stressful life event in the past year (yes/no) was not associated with an increase in odds of being a gambler, with gambling more frequently, or with having a gambling problem. However, when the context of the event was considered, an association was found between directly experiencing threatening and deviant/violent types of events and frequent gambling (OR > 2). Additionally, the probability of being a gambler increased as the number of events experienced increased (aOR = 1.07, 95% CI = 1.01, 1.13, P = 0.013), but problems among gamblers were not associated with the number of events experienced (aOR = 1.01, 95% CI = 0.92, 1.11, P = 0.876). During adolescence, life events appear to be connected more with the frequency of gambling rather than with problems related to gambling.
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