Income Inequality and Adolescent Gambling Severity: Findings from a Large-Scale Italian Representative Survey

Lottery gambling is the most common form of gambling in Canada, and lottery tickets and instant win tickets are the most frequently played games. Differences between lottery ticket gambling and instant win ticket gambling were examined by using a large-scale Canadian data set (N = 25,780). Lottery ticket gambling was associated with being older, male, and married, whereas instant win ticket gambling was associated with lower levels of education. Frequency of instant win ticket gambling predicted greater problem gambling severity and participating in more gambling activities independent of demographic variables and lottery ticket gambling. In comparison, frequency of lottery ticket gambling did not predict problem gambling severity or the number of gambling activities independent of demographic variables and instant win ticket gambling. Neither lottery game was related to mental health disorders or substance use. These findings provide converging evidence suggesting that different lottery games may attract distinct types of Canadian gamblers.

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Impact of Income Distribution on Social and Economic Well-Being of the State

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12010429 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 429 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Yuriy Bilan ◽

Halyna Mishchuk ◽

Natalia Samoliuk ◽

Halyna Yurchyk

Keyword(s):

Income Inequality ◽

Income Distribution ◽

Large Scale ◽

Well Being ◽

Distribution Analysis ◽

Eu Member States ◽

Rights Protection ◽

Property Rights Protection ◽

Structural Indicators ◽

Economic Well Being

Income distribution can cause large-scale transformations in human resources structure, essential changes of economic outputs via its impact on life satisfaction and motivation of work. Thus, the overall objective of this research is to improve methodological tools of income distribution analysis based on identifying the links between different structural indicators of income inequality and the most essential features of social and economic well-being. We conducted comparative analysis of EU Member States and Ukraine. We used structural analysis based on two forms of income distribution—functional (share of “labour” in Gross domestic product - GDP) and household one (ratio of incomes measured by special decile coefficients) to identify income inequality and inconsistencies in distributive strategies. By grouping European countries according to economic well-being (described as GDP per capita) and inequality in income distribution (based on Gini coefficient), we determined apparent tendencies in distributive policies and revealed links between income distribution and connected social-economic features of well-being. We conclude that countries with the most stable and clear patterns in income distribution have distinct connections between the share of labour costs in GDP and successes in social and economic spheres, including human development level, property rights protection, GDP growth, possibilities for taxation and budgeting of social programmes.

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Extractive Resources, Conflicts and Migration

Environmental Conflicts, Migration and Governance ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781529202168.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 37-58

Author(s):

Indra de Soysa

Keyword(s):

Income Inequality ◽

Renewable Resources ◽

Large Scale ◽

Rent Seeking ◽

Energy Resources ◽

Political Repression ◽

Resource Abundance ◽

Migration Flows ◽

And Migration ◽

Lootable Resources

This chapter focuses on non-renewable resources and their relation to conflict and migration. It explores the argument that conflict is not brought by scarcity of these resources, but rather by resource abundance and the fact that they make looting possible. Access to valuable non-renewable resources, such as energy resources, can create crises of governance. Accountability decreases and rent seeking and corruption become common behaviors. ‘Lootable’ resources increase the possibilities of high political repression and income inequality, which then cause small and large-scale ‘uprooting’. Thus, tackling the issue of bad governance is key in order to solve migration flows caused by ‘lootable’ conflicts.

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A large-scale national study of gambling severity among immigrant and non-immigrant adolescents: The role of the family

Addictive Behaviors ◽

10.1016/j.addbeh.2016.11.020 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 66 ◽

pp. 125-131 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Natale Canale ◽

Alessio Vieno ◽

Mark D Griffiths ◽

Alberto Borraccino ◽

Giacomo Lazzeri ◽

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Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

National Study ◽

Immigrant Adolescents ◽

The Family ◽

Gambling Severity

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Sensation Seeking and Gambling Behavior in Adolescence: Can Externalizing Problems Moderate this Relationship?

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17238986 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (23) ◽

pp. 8986

Author(s):

Franca Tani ◽

Lucia Ponti ◽

Simon Ghinassi

Keyword(s):

Externalizing Problems ◽

Sensation Seeking ◽

Gambling Behavior ◽

Adolescent Gambling ◽

Gambling Behaviors ◽

Widespread Phenomenon ◽

Gambling Severity ◽

The Relationship ◽

Moderating Role

Gambling is a widespread phenomenon during adolescence. Among different risk factors involved in the onset of adolescent gambling behaviors, one factor that is studied is the sensation seeking personality trait. However, the literature is heterogeneous and a direct relationship between sensation seeking and gaming behaviors has not always been highlighted. This suggests that the relationship can be influenced by other factors. In particular, we explored the moderating role of externalizing problems in this relationship. A total of 363 adolescents (232 males and 131 females) aged 14 to 20 (M = 16.35, SD = 1.36) completed a battery of questionnaires aimed to assess their gambling behaviors, as well as the levels of externalizing problems and sensation seeking. The results showed that sensation seeking was associated with gambling severity, but this relationship was significant when externalizing problems were high and medium. On the contrary, when externalizing problems were low, the relationship between sensation seeking and gambling severity was not significant. Overall, sensation seeking in adolescence can favor the implementation of risk behaviors, such as gambling, but only in association with the presence of externalizing problems. Limitations, strengths, and social and clinical implications of the present study are discussed.

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Impact of Internet gambling on problem gambling among adolescents in Italy: Findings from a large-scale nationally representative survey

Computers in Human Behavior ◽

10.1016/j.chb.2015.12.020 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 57 ◽

pp. 99-106 ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

Natale Canale ◽

Mark D. Griffiths ◽

Alessio Vieno ◽

Valeria Siciliano ◽

Sabrina Molinaro

Keyword(s):

Problem Gambling ◽

Large Scale ◽

Internet Gambling ◽

Representative Survey ◽

Nationally Representative

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Economic Inequality and Belief in Meritocracy in the United States

10.31235/osf.io/x9qsf ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Frederick Solt ◽

Yue Hu ◽

Kevan Hudson ◽

Jungmin Song ◽

Dong Erico Yu

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Income Inequality ◽

The United States ◽

Conflict Theory ◽

Hard Work ◽

Relative Power ◽

Lower Income ◽

Representative Survey ◽

Local Contexts ◽

Widespread Belief

How does the context of income inequality in which people live affect their belief in meritocracy, the ability to get ahead through hard work? One prominent recent study, Newman, Johnston, and Lown (2015), argues that, consistent with the conflict theory, exposure to higher levels of local income inequality lead lower-income people to become more likely to reject—and higher-income people to become more likely to accept—the dominant U.S. ideology of meritocracy. Here, we show that this conclusion is not supported by the study's own reported results and that even these results depend on pooling three different measures of meritocracy into a single analysis. We then demonstrate that analysis of a larger and more representative survey employing a single consistent measure of the dependent variable yields the opposite conclusion. Consistent with the relative power theory, among those with lower incomes, local contexts of greater inequality are associated with more widespread belief that people can get ahead if they are willing to work hard.

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