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Citation
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Rahman AS, Balodis IM, Pilver CE, Leeman RF, Hoff RA, Steinberg MA, Rugle L, Krishnan-Sarin S, Potenza MN. Subst. Abuse 2014; 35(4): 426-434. |
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Affiliation
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Department of Psychiatry , Yale University School of Medicine , New Haven , CT , United States. |
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Abstract
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BACKGROUND: To examine in adolescents how alcohol-drinking frequency relates to gambling-related attitudes and behaviors and their perceptions of both problem-gambling prevention strategies and adult (including parental) behaviors/attitudes.
METHODS: A survey assessing alcohol, gambling and health and functioning measures in 1609 high-school students. Students were stratified into low-frequency/non-drinking and high-frequency drinking groups, and into low-risk and at-risk/problematic gambling groups.
RESULTS: High-frequency drinking was associated with at-risk/problematic gambling (χ2(1, N = 1842) = 49.22, p<.0001). High-frequency-drinking versus low-frequency/non-drinking adolescents exhibited more permissive attitudes towards gambling (e.g., less likely to report multiple problem-gambling prevention efforts to be important). At-risk problematic gamblers exhibited more severe drinking patterns and greater likelihood of acknowledging parental approval of drinking (χ2(1, N = 1842) = 31.58, p<.0001). Problem-gambling severity was more strongly related to gambling with adults among high-frequency-drinking adolescents (odds ratio [OR] = 3.17, 95% confidence interval [95%CI] = [1.97, 5.09]) versus low-frequency/non-drinking (OR = 1.86, 95%CI = [0.61, 2.68]) adolescents (Interaction OR = 1.78, 95%CI = [1.05, 3.02]).
CONCLUSIONS: Inter-relationships between problematic drinking and gambling in youth may relate to more permissive attitudes across these domains. Stronger links between at-risk/problem gambling and gambling with adults in the high-frequency-drinking group raises the possibility that interventions targeting adults may help mitigate youth gambling and drinking.
Language: en |