TY - JOUR PY - 2019// TI - Weapon-carrying is associated with more permissive gambling attitudes and perceptions and at-risk/problem gambling in adolescents JO - Journal of behavioral addictions A1 - Zhai, Zu Wei A1 - Hoff, Rani A. A1 - Magruder, Caitlin F. A1 - Steinberg, Marvin A. A1 - Wampler, Jeremy A1 - Krishnan-Sarin, Suchitra A1 - Potenza, Marc N. SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - BACKGROUND AND AIMS: A recent call to action highlighted the need to understand the relationship between problem gambling, violence, and health/functioning. As weapon-carrying and gambling behaviors are prevalent in adolescents, this study systematically examined relationships between weapon-carrying status and measures of problem gambling severity and gambling perceptions and attitudes, as well as how weapon-carrying status moderated relationships between problem gambling severity and measures of health/functioning and gambling behavior.

METHODS: Participants were 2,301 Connecticut high-school adolescents. χ2 and logistic regression models were conducted.

RESULTS: Weapon-carriers reported greater problem gambling severity, more permissive gambling perceptions, greater parental approval of gambling, and more family gambling concerns, compared to non-weapon-carriers. At-risk/problem gambling was more strongly associated with family, peers, and adult gambling partners among non-weapon-carriers (vs. weapon-carriers) and with machine gambling among weapon-carriers (vs. non-weapon-carriers).

DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: Greater problem gambling severity and more permissive gambling perceptions and perceived parental approval of gambling in weapon-carrying adolescents suggest that parent-child relationships are important to be considered in prevention efforts. The moderated relationship by weapon-carrying status between problem gambling severity and gambling partners suggests a problem gambling risk group that may be less linked to gambling with traditional social support groups, and this group may benefit from targeted interventions.

Language: en

LA - en SN - 2062-5871 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.8.2019.42 ID - ref1 ER -