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The role of social factors in gambling: evidence from the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey

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Pages 257-271 | Received 22 Apr 2009, Published online: 18 Aug 2010
 

Abstract

Using data from the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey, relationships were explored between gambling variables and each of the three key indices of a person's social position, controlling for age and sex. Personal income was found to be positively and linearly related to gambling prevalence, to number of gambling activities engaged in, and to positive attitudes towards gambling; household occupational category was significantly associated with prevalence and frequency of gambling, with problem or moderate risk gambling, and with attitudes towards gambling (managerial and professional, and intermediate, categories obtained lower values than other categories on each of those variables); area deprivation was significantly positively and linearly related to frequency and volume of gambling and to reports of close relatives having gambling problems. The analyses presented here, whilst primarily exploratory, suggest that future surveys should go further towards examining gambling issues as ones of family and community significance.

Utilizando datos de la Encuesta Británica sobre Prevalencia del Juego del año 2007, se estudiaron las relaciones entre las variables de juego y tres indicadores de la posición social de la persona, el control de la edad y el sexo. Se halló una relación positiva y lineal entre la renta de la persona y la prevalencia del juego, el número de actividades de juego llevadas a cabo y las actitudes positivas hacia el juego; la categoría profesional del hogar estuvo asociada de forma significativa a la prevalencia y la frecuencia del juego, al juego problemático o de riesgo moderado, y a las actitudes hacia el juego (las categorías directivas y profesionales, y las categorías intermedias obtuvieron valores más bajos que otras categorías en cada una de esas variables); la marginación social de la zona presentó una relación positiva y lineal con la frecuencia y el volumen del juego y con los informes sobre familiares cercanos con problemas de juego. Los análisis aquí presentados, aunque todavía preliminares, sugieren que futuras investigaciones deberían seguir profundizando en el análisis de otras cuestiones en relación con el juego como son la familia o la importancia de la comunidad.

Acknowledgements

We wish to acknowledge the support of the Gambling Commission who commissioned the British Gambling Prevalence Survey of which the work reported in this paper was part. Our thanks are also due to Pat Evans of the Alcohol, Drugs, Gambling and Addiction Research Group at the University of Birmingham who prepared draft and final versions of this paper.

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