Session Title

Session 2-4-A: Predicting Problem Gambling

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation

Location

Park MGM, Las Vegas, NV

Start Date

24-5-2023 3:30 PM

End Date

24-5-2023 5:00 PM

Disciplines

Counseling Psychology | Criminal Law | Criminology | Educational Sociology | Gaming Law | Industrial and Organizational Psychology | Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The study was designed to evaluate the effects of pathological ludomania to gambling on Nigerian youth. The study looked at how get-rich-quick mentality, access to gaming, and poverty can lead to gambling ludomania in young people. The Social Learning and Differential Association Theories were debated and chosen as the theoretical framework for the study. A questionnaire created to represent the study's research topics was utilized to collect the study's data. A structured questionnaire was sent to two hundred (200) respondents, who were chosen using a multi-stage sampling procedure. The data were analyzed using simple percentage, descriptive, and chi-square statistical techniques. Findings showed that the main remote causes of young people's gambling ludomania/addiction were poverty, the availability of gaming possibilities, and the get-rich-quick mentality. The researchers suggested that secondary schools, both private and public, should inform their students/pupils about the risks associated with gambling addiction. To stop teenage gambling addiction, the National Lottery Regulatory Commission should ask the National Assembly to raise the legal gaming age from 18 to 25 years.

Implications Statement

Problems with gambling are a widespread current concern that can have a variety of unfavorable effects. Consequently upon this, there are not many research on the topic as it applies to Bonny youths. The study offers an update on the prevalence, impact on crime-related issues connected to gambling/gaming.

Keywords

Pathological, ludomania, gambling, get-rich-quick mentality, poverty

Author Bios

George Nzeadi, Duru holds a Master’s degree in Criminology from the University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Nigeria. He teaches Citizenship Education, Security and Safety Management in the Federal Polytechnic of Oil and Gas, Bonny, and has several publications on Juvenile delinquency, Criminal Justice System and gambling harm in local and international journals. His marriage to Josephine is blessed with two children; Jayden and Giovanny.

Dr. Larry Okechukwu, Awo holds a Doctorate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of Nigeria Nsukka, He teaches Citizenship Education in the Federal Polytechnic of Oil and Gas, Bonny, and has several publications on youth gambling intention, problem gambling and mental health in relevant journals such as the Journal of Gambling Studies, International Gambling Studies, Current Psychology, Journal of Psychology in Africa etc. He is married to Juliet.

Funding Sources

This research is NOT funded by any governmental and non-governmental body

Competing Interests

The authors do not have any financial competing interest over the last three years

Comments

This research aimed at providing data from Nigeria on the pathological impact of ludomania among the Nigerian youths.

This research, if it's been accepted would be sponsored by Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) Nigeria, for its attendance and presentation.

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Criminological Evaluation of the Impact of Pathological Ludomania to Gambling among Nigerian Youths

Park MGM, Las Vegas, NV

ABSTRACT

The study was designed to evaluate the effects of pathological ludomania to gambling on Nigerian youth. The study looked at how get-rich-quick mentality, access to gaming, and poverty can lead to gambling ludomania in young people. The Social Learning and Differential Association Theories were debated and chosen as the theoretical framework for the study. A questionnaire created to represent the study's research topics was utilized to collect the study's data. A structured questionnaire was sent to two hundred (200) respondents, who were chosen using a multi-stage sampling procedure. The data were analyzed using simple percentage, descriptive, and chi-square statistical techniques. Findings showed that the main remote causes of young people's gambling ludomania/addiction were poverty, the availability of gaming possibilities, and the get-rich-quick mentality. The researchers suggested that secondary schools, both private and public, should inform their students/pupils about the risks associated with gambling addiction. To stop teenage gambling addiction, the National Lottery Regulatory Commission should ask the National Assembly to raise the legal gaming age from 18 to 25 years.

Implications Statement

Problems with gambling are a widespread current concern that can have a variety of unfavorable effects. Consequently upon this, there are not many research on the topic as it applies to Bonny youths. The study offers an update on the prevalence, impact on crime-related issues connected to gambling/gaming.