Changes to the playing field: A contemporary study of actual European online sports betting.

Autor: Nelson SE; 1Division on Addiction, Cambridge Health Alliance, Malden, MA, USA.; 2Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA., Edson TC; 1Division on Addiction, Cambridge Health Alliance, Malden, MA, USA.; 2Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA., Louderback ER; 1Division on Addiction, Cambridge Health Alliance, Malden, MA, USA., Tom MA; 1Division on Addiction, Cambridge Health Alliance, Malden, MA, USA.; 2Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA., Grossman A; 1Division on Addiction, Cambridge Health Alliance, Malden, MA, USA., LaPlante DA; 1Division on Addiction, Cambridge Health Alliance, Malden, MA, USA.; 2Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of behavioral addictions [J Behav Addict] 2021 Jun 30. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jun 30.
DOI: 10.1556/2006.2021.00029
Abstrakt: Background and Aims: Online sports wagering is a popular and still growing gambling activity around the world. Like other types of gambling, it can lead to problems that include devastating financial, social, and health-related harms. The first analysis of actual online sports wagering activity (LaBrie et al., 2007) suggested that levels of financial and time involvement were more moderate than anticipated from earlier self-report studies. However, these findings are now more than a decade old.
Methods: The current study examined actual online sports wagering activity of a similar cohort of 32,262 gamblers who subscribed to a European online betting platform in February 2015 to understand how sports betting might have changed in ten years. Measures included subscriber characteristics, betting activities, and transactional activities.
Results: Players placed a median of 15 bets during the 8-month study period, made a median of 2.5 bets per betting day, had a median bet size of 6.1 euros, and experienced a median net loss of 25 euros. We were able to distinguish highly involved bettors in the top 2% of total wagered, net loss, and number of bets, whose behavior differed from that of the rest of the sample.
Discussion and Conclusions: Sports wagering behavior has remained relatively stable over time despite legislative changes and an increase in popularity, with a small subset of subscribers exhibiting disproportionately high engagement, transactional activity, and in-game betting. Further investigation of individual trajectories of wagering behavior and engagement with different types of sports wagering products is merited.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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