ArticleHeliyon2021
What game we are playing: the psychosocial context of problem gambling, problem gaming and poor well-being among Italian high school students.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Exploring Comorbid Addictive Symptoms in Gambling Disorder: The Role of Emotion Regulation, Alexithymia, and Social Support.Journal of gambling studies · 2026Article
- Sex and Age Differences and Psychosocial Determinants of Regular Gambling: Insights from a Community-Based Study.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- The effects of social isolation and problematic social media use on well-being in a sample of young Italian gamblers.Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2025Article
- Moral panic and gaming disorder: focused on the mediation role of negative attitudes toward digital games.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Video slot machine use in adolescence: the role of self-efficacy beliefs, current and expected personal fulfillment at the social and educational level.Addictive behaviors reports · 2024Article
- What is known about population level programs designed to address gambling-related harm: rapid review of the evidence.Harm reduction journal · 2024Review
- What Adolescents Have to Say about Problematic Internet Use: A Qualitative Study Based on Focus Groups.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Relationship between view of context, psychosocial malaise and problematic internet use: mediation analysis using partial least squares structural equation modelling.BJPsych open · 2022Article
- Investigating Adolescents' Video Gaming and Gambling Activities, and Their Relationship With Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Difficulties: Protocol for a Multi-Informant Study.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
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Abstract
Gambling and gaming are not infrequent among adolescents and preventing low-risk youth from becoming at-risk appears to be a priority of public health strategies. Greater scrutiny of the risk and protective factors in the relationships and community of young people appears crucial in steering prevention initiatives adequately. This study aimed to explore the role of the qualities of relational networks (i.e. family functioning, perceived social and class support), family and peer approval and view of the social environment in predicting problem gambling, problem gaming and overall well-being among adolescents. High-school students aged 14-18 years (N: 595; female: 68,7%) completed a survey including the target variables. A multivariate multiple regression analysis was performed to examine the role of socio-demographic characteristics and psychosocial predictors on gaming, gambling, and well-being. Multivariate multiple regressions identify a common core underpinning problem gambling, gaming and poor well-being but also the distinct roles of psychosocial variables: being male, with low parental monitoring, and an anomic view of the social environment all predict problem gambling and gaming, which were also found to be associated. Low social support predicts problem gambling but not problem gaming; poor family functioning predicts problem gaming but not problem gambling. All the target psychosocial variables, except approval of gambling, predict poor well-being. On the whole the findings suggest the need to look more closely at the way adolescents, their system of activity and their culture participate in constructing the meaning of gambling and gaming activities and their impact on adolescents' well-being, so that future studies and strategies can more effectively examine the relational dynamics in which problem gambling and gaming develop.
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