著者

安藤 明人 Akihito Ando

雑誌

武庫川女子大学紀要. 人文・社会科学編 (ISSN:09163115)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.48, pp.21-28, 2001-03-31

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In Japan, soccer lottery is scheduled to start in 2001 as a new type of publicly-managed gambling. Relatively little is known about the effects of the advent of sports betting on youth gambling. The purposes of this study were to examine the prevalence of gambling and pseudgambling games among college students in Japan. 384 college students (aged 18-28) were administered questionnaire that inquires multiple domains of gambling behavior such as participation in gambling, dependency in gambling and cognition of gambling. Also was measured the desire for control to explore the possible relation between personality characteristics and gambling dependency. The majority of students gambled at least once in their life. However, most did not play any gamble or pseud-gambling game on a weekly/daily rate. The proportion of regular and problem gamblers found in this study were lower than prevalence rates reported in the US and Canada. Gender effect was found for gambling frequency and dependency. Male students gambled more often than female students. Cognitive factors seemed to be important in the explanation of gambling activity. Factors related to cognitive biases on gambling were discussed with reference to cognitive influences such as illusion of control, biased evaluations, and desire for control. College students will be the first generation of youth to be exposed to official sports betting and it will be important to continue monitoring the prevalence of youth gambling.