Overseas Internet Poker and Problem Gambling in Finland 2007: A Secondary Data Analysis of a Finnish Population Survey:

摘要

AIMSInternet gambling has been associated with Increased risk of problem gambling. In this study different clusters of gambling activities and behavioral measures of gambling were used In analyses, which aimed at Investigating prevalence of problem gambling in Internet poker gamblers and In other gamblers.DATA AND METHODSThe study consisted of secondary analyses of a Finnish population data set collected in 2007 (telephone survey, reaching 5,008 Finns aged 15 years and over). Bivariate statistics and logistic regression models were used in the analyses.ResultsWhen only age and sex were added to logistic regressions, overseas Internet poker (IP) gamblers were almost three times more likely to be problem gamblers than other gamblers. However, when also behavioral measures of gambling were added to equations, no difference in problem gambling between IP and other gambling was found. In the slot machine (SM) cluster an opposite phenomena occurred: when behavioral variables were added to analyses, subjects in ...