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ArticleJournal of gambling studies2024

"If You Don't Arrange Your Bets Well You Will Still Lose": Gambling Strategies of Visually Impaired Students.

Ralph Frimpong, Ernest Yeboah Acheampong

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Article in Journal of gambling studies, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Online Games and Cognitive Distortions: A Comparative Analysis in Students with and without Disabilities.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ralph FrimpongDepartment of Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Sport, University of Education, Winneba, P. O. Box 25, Winneba, Ghana.
Ernest Yeboah AcheampongDepartment of Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Sport, University of Education, Winneba, P. O. Box 25, Winneba, Ghana. eyacheampong@uew.edu.gh.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4352-3149
University of Education, Winneba · GH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Few studies have focused on people with hearing loss and intellectual disabilities engaging in gambling activities. However, people with visual impairments' energetic participation in sports betting activities is unexplored. This article highlights sports betting strategies of visually impaired students to understand how their motives affect their gambling behaviours as an alternative to their survival. Six male adults aged between 27 and 40 years participated using semi-structured interviews, which were conducted face-to-face, recorded, transcribed, and thematically analysed with the Braun and Clarke model. Findings show that sports betting prevails in communities fostering peer persuasion including family relations serving as an inducer for visually impaired students. Their strategies are varied including the fewer the better concept based on teams' selection dynamics. While they are inspired by potential economic gains, some recognise it as acquiring entrepreneurial skills because of risk-taking, thus asymmetry and disconnected. The article recommends stakeholders' education to provide better policies that can remind them to bet for leisure or desist from gambling.

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GamblingPersons with Visual DisabilitiesStudentsAdultHumansMaleMotivationRisk-TakingSportsDisabilityGamblingSocial actionStrategiesStudents with visual impairments

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PMID38311693
OpenAlexW4392735348

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