ArticleJournal of gambling studies2019
A Quantification of the Net Consumer Surplus from Gambling Participation.
Article in Journal of gambling studies, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Problem gambling and affected others: health, relational and economic outcomes across longitudinal trajectories in a population-based Swedish study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- A Balancing Act: How Affected Others Support Themselves and Those Who Gamble.Journal of gambling studies · 2026Article
- "It Was Never-Ending…": Investigating Gambling Harm Reported by Affected Others.Journal of gambling studies · 2025Article
- Associations Between Heavy Episodic Drinking, Drinking While Gambling, and Risky Gambling.Journal of gambling studies · 2023Article
- Legacy gambling harms: What are they and how long do they last?Journal of behavioral addictions · 2022Article
- The Evolution of Gambling-Related Harm Measurement: Lessons from the Last Decade.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- The identification of Australian low-risk gambling limits: A comparison of gambling-related harm measures.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2021Article
- Affected Others Responsivity to Gambling Harm: An International Taxonomy of Consumer-Derived Behaviour Change Techniques.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- A framework for indirect elicitation of the public health impact of gambling problems.BMC public health · 2020Review
- Public health effects of gambling - debate on a conceptual model.BMC public health · 2019Review
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Abstract
Gambling exposes people to risk for harm, but also has recreational benefits. The present study aimed to measure gambling harm and gambling benefits on similar scales using two novel methods adapted from the Burden of Disease approach (McCormack et al. in Psychol Med 18(4):1007-1019, 1988; Torrance et al. in Health Serv Res 7(2):118-133, 1972) to find whether gambling either adds or subtracts from quality of life. A Tasmanian population-representative survey of 5000 adults (2534 female) from random digit dialling (RDD) of landline telephones in Tasmania (50%), as well as pre-screened Tasmanian RDD mobiles (17%) and listed mobile numbers (33%), measured gambling benefits and harms amongst gamblers (59.2%) and a non-exclusive set of people who were "affected" by someone else's gambling (4.5%). The majority of gamblers indicated no change to their quality of life from gambling (82.5% or 72.6% based on direct elicitation or time trade off methods, respectively). Nevertheless, a weighted average of all the positive and negative influences on quality of life, inclusive of gamblers and affected others, revealed that the quality of life change from gambling is either a very modest + 0.05% or a more concerning - 1.9% per capita. Gambling generates only small or negative net consumer surpluses for Tasmanians.
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