Internet Gambling: Issues, Concerns, and Recommendations

By Mark D. Griffiths. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Internet Gambling Amongst Adolescents: A Growing Concern (2007, background): “Dr. Griffiths (1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2006) speculated that the accessibility, affordability, anonymity, convenience, and a social nature as well as the structural characteristics of the software itself could easily promote online gambling.”
Problematic Use of the Internet and Self-Regulation: A Review of the Initial Studies (2012, background): “, compulsive consumption of adult pornographic websites [5]), online gambling [6], and online video game playing [7], thereby emphasizing that this problematic behavior can take very different forms across individuals and should not be viewed as homogeneous.”
Pathological Video-Game Use Among Youth Ages 8 to 18 (2009, background): “People gamble or play video games for many reasons, including to relax, to experience competence and autonomy, and to escape from daily concerns (Griffiths, 2003; Ryan, Rigby, & Przybylski, 2006).”
Internet Gambling: Prevalence, Patterns, Problems, and Policy Options (2009, background): “Because most Internet gamblers are employed, this also 46 Griffiths (2003, 2006b) has found that females often pretend to be the opposite sex in order to be taken more seriously and for a greater sense of security, and males pretend to be females, supposedly to give them a tactical advantage…”
Online Social Networking and Addiction—A Review of the Psychological Literature (2011, background): “This supports the availability hypothesis that where there is increased access and opportunity to engage in an activity (in this case SNSs), there is an increase in the numbers of people who engage in the activity [32].”
Analysis of casino online gambling data in relation to behavioural risk markers for high-risk gambling and player protection (2011, background): “gambling behaviour was undertaken by Griffiths (2003). He proposed a number of factors that make Internet gambling potentially addictive, including accessibility, anonymity, affordability, convenience, interactivity and disinhibition, arguing that addicts use the Internet to fuel underlying addictio”
Social networking addiction: an overview of preliminary findings (2014, background): “This supports the availability hypothesis that where there is increased access and opportunity to engage in an activity (in this case SNSs), there is an increase in the numbers of people who engage in the activity (Griffiths, 2003).”
Internet Gambling: An Online Empirical Study Among Student Gamblers (2008, background): “Griffiths has suggested many simple guidelines for Internet gamblers to follow that should help to minimise problem gambling (Griffiths 2003a).”
Problematic Use of the Mobile Phone: A Literature Review and a Pathways Model (2012, background): “Besides cellular phone addictions, the most frequent cyber addictions are online video-game addictions [50], online gambling addictions [53], online sex addictions [54] and social network addictions [55].”
Clinical and Personality Correlates of MMO Gaming (2013, background): “Unlike some forms of Internet use such as online gambling, which are often conducted in relative social isolation (Griffiths, 2003; Griffiths, Wardle, Orford, Sproston, & Erens, 2011), MMOs rely on interpersonal relationships between players (Caplan, Williams, & Yee, 2009).”
Internet gambling policy in critical comparative perspective: the effectiveness of existing regulatory frameworks (2011, background): “…lack of interruptions associated with solitary play; (5) anonymity; (6) the reduced costs normally associated with travel and food; and (7) the availability of cheaper bets online (Griffiths, 2003; Griffiths & Barnes, 2008; McCormack & Griffiths, 2010; Monaghan, 2009; Wood & Williams, 2007).”
Does the construct of Internet addiction reflect a single entity or a spectrum of disorders (2017, background): “These “structural characteristics” of the Internet may play a crucial role in facilitating addictive behaviours (e.g., Aboujaoude 2012, Griffiths 2003, Morahan-Martin 2005, Northrup et al. 2015, Starcevic and Aboujaoude in press, Thorens et al. 2012,) so that, for example, some individuals without…”
All in! The commercial advertising of offshore gambling on television (2008, positive): “…and honing the motivations — relaxation, competition, excitement, winning, escaping boredom and worries, developing skills, and feeling lucky — of players and by guaranteeing them and future customers reputational security (Griffiths, 2003; Wood & Griffiths, 2008; Wood, Parke, & Griffiths, 2007).”
Online behavioural tracking in Internet gambling research: ethical and methodological issues (2010, background): “It has been argued that many online gamblers are unknowingly passing on information about themselves and that this raises serious questions about the gradual erosion of online gamblers’ privacy (Griffiths, 2003; Griffiths & Parke, 2002; Griffiths, Wood, Parke & Parke, 2006).”
The attractions and risks of Internet gambling for women: a qualitative study (2010, result): “As has been found in the majority of other studies, probably the most important factor in determining use of the Internet is accessibility (American Gaming Association, 2006; Griffiths, 2003; Griffiths & Barnes, 2008; Wood & Griffiths, 2008; Wood, Williams, & Lawton, 2007).”