This paper helps address a deficiency of gender specific research into gambling. Using predominan... more This paper helps address a deficiency of gender specific research into gambling. Using predominantly non-parametric tests, the paper analyses data from 1 257 female and 1 743 male respondents in a telephone survey of 3 000 members selected randomly from six large Sydney clubs. The results support female gambling stereotypes of lower individual bets and lower overall expenditure, but not of lower participation and frequency of play, and shorter duration of gambling sessions. Further, regular female gaming machine players appear more likely than non-regular female players to be migrants, either young or old, and from lower socio-economic groups. Regular female gaming machine players also appear to forgo the social side of playing machines, to spend more overall, and to be more at risk of problem gambling than non-regular female players. Finally, the distinguishing socio-demographic characteristics and machine playing behaviours of the regular male gaming machine players are very simil...
While games of chance have been part of the Aboriginal cultural landscape since before European c... more While games of chance have been part of the Aboriginal cultural landscape since before European contact, large-scale commercial gaming facilities within First Nations communities are a relatively new phenomenon in Canada. First Nations Gaming in Canada is the first multidisciplinary study of the role of gaming in indigenous communities north of the 49th parallel. Bringing together some of Canada’s leading gambling researchers, the book examines the history of Aboriginal gaming and its role in indigenous political economy, the rise of large-scale casinos and cybergaming, the socio-ecological impact of problem gambling, and the challenges of labour unions and financial management. The authors also call attention to the dearth of socio-economic impact studies of gambling in First Nations communities while providing models to address this growing issue of concern.
Journal of gambling studies / co-sponsored by the National Council on Problem Gambling and Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming, 2002
New South Wales, Australia, is one of the major markets in the world for machine gaming, with its... more New South Wales, Australia, is one of the major markets in the world for machine gaming, with its 1,441 registered clubs holding the dominant share of the state's machines. This study examined machine gambling behavior amongst a random sample of 3,000 club members from six of the largest clubs in Sydney, the capital city of New South Wales. The findings identify their machine gambling preferences and participation levels, isolate significant sociodemographic and other differences between gaming machine and non-gaming machine players, measure the prevalence of probable pathological gambling associated with machine gambling, and identify certain characteristics which differ significantly between probable pathological and non-pathological machine gamblers amongst the respondents.
Journal of gambling studies / co-sponsored by the National Council on Problem Gambling and Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming, 2002
This research provided background for surveys and interviews in later stages of a 3 part project.... more This research provided background for surveys and interviews in later stages of a 3 part project. It aimed to identify, from secondary research, sociodemographic characteristics which tend to support registered clubs and their machine gaming activities in the Sydney Statistical Division. Using multiple methods including Pearson's Product Moment correlation, Principal Components factor analysis, and stepwise regression, the study profiled Sydney populations which spend highly on gaming machines. The most important sociodemographic predictors of Sydney statistical local areas where per capita gaming machine expenditure is high are large proportions of the adult resident population who were born in Malta, Greece, Lebanon, China, Italy, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, India or the Philippines; have no vocational or tertiary qualifications; or are unemployed.
Abstract Management education has the responsibility to provide industry with graduates equipped ... more Abstract Management education has the responsibility to provide industry with graduates equipped with relevant management competencies (Christon 2002). This paper agrees with this view and reports on the first and second stages of a longitudinal study that explores ...
National Association for Gambling Studies (Australia) 2004 Conference Proceedings 72 A PROFILE OF... more National Association for Gambling Studies (Australia) 2004 Conference Proceedings 72 A PROFILE OF PROBLEM GAMBLING CLIENTS IN NORTHERN NSW Barry Evans, Yvonne Corrigan, Jeremy Buultjens, John Haw, Nerilee Hing & Helen Breen Contact: Associate Professor Nerilee ...
ABSTRACT This is the final report of a three stage project examining the gaming machine playing b... more ABSTRACT This is the final report of a three stage project examining the gaming machine playing behaviour of Sydney registered club members of different social, demographic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds. This report presents an evaluation of the current and future adequacy of services for people with gambling problems who are from populations identified as most at risk of developing a problem with gaming machine gambling. The other reports from this project are Poker Machine Playing and Problem Gambling Amongst Members of Sydney’s Registered Clubs and Socio-Demographic Characteristics of Resident Populations Supporting Poker Machine Playing in Sydney’s Registered Clubs.
This paper helps address a deficiency of gender specific research into gambling. Using predominan... more This paper helps address a deficiency of gender specific research into gambling. Using predominantly non-parametric tests, the paper analyses data from 1 257 female and 1 743 male respondents in a telephone survey of 3 000 members selected randomly from six large Sydney clubs. The results support female gambling stereotypes of lower individual bets and lower overall expenditure, but not of lower participation and frequency of play, and shorter duration of gambling sessions. Further, regular female gaming machine players appear more likely than non-regular female players to be migrants, either young or old, and from lower socio-economic groups. Regular female gaming machine players also appear to forgo the social side of playing machines, to spend more overall, and to be more at risk of problem gambling than non-regular female players. Finally, the distinguishing socio-demographic characteristics and machine playing behaviours of the regular male gaming machine players are very simil...
While games of chance have been part of the Aboriginal cultural landscape since before European c... more While games of chance have been part of the Aboriginal cultural landscape since before European contact, large-scale commercial gaming facilities within First Nations communities are a relatively new phenomenon in Canada. First Nations Gaming in Canada is the first multidisciplinary study of the role of gaming in indigenous communities north of the 49th parallel. Bringing together some of Canada’s leading gambling researchers, the book examines the history of Aboriginal gaming and its role in indigenous political economy, the rise of large-scale casinos and cybergaming, the socio-ecological impact of problem gambling, and the challenges of labour unions and financial management. The authors also call attention to the dearth of socio-economic impact studies of gambling in First Nations communities while providing models to address this growing issue of concern.
Journal of gambling studies / co-sponsored by the National Council on Problem Gambling and Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming, 2002
New South Wales, Australia, is one of the major markets in the world for machine gaming, with its... more New South Wales, Australia, is one of the major markets in the world for machine gaming, with its 1,441 registered clubs holding the dominant share of the state's machines. This study examined machine gambling behavior amongst a random sample of 3,000 club members from six of the largest clubs in Sydney, the capital city of New South Wales. The findings identify their machine gambling preferences and participation levels, isolate significant sociodemographic and other differences between gaming machine and non-gaming machine players, measure the prevalence of probable pathological gambling associated with machine gambling, and identify certain characteristics which differ significantly between probable pathological and non-pathological machine gamblers amongst the respondents.
Journal of gambling studies / co-sponsored by the National Council on Problem Gambling and Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming, 2002
This research provided background for surveys and interviews in later stages of a 3 part project.... more This research provided background for surveys and interviews in later stages of a 3 part project. It aimed to identify, from secondary research, sociodemographic characteristics which tend to support registered clubs and their machine gaming activities in the Sydney Statistical Division. Using multiple methods including Pearson's Product Moment correlation, Principal Components factor analysis, and stepwise regression, the study profiled Sydney populations which spend highly on gaming machines. The most important sociodemographic predictors of Sydney statistical local areas where per capita gaming machine expenditure is high are large proportions of the adult resident population who were born in Malta, Greece, Lebanon, China, Italy, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, India or the Philippines; have no vocational or tertiary qualifications; or are unemployed.
Abstract Management education has the responsibility to provide industry with graduates equipped ... more Abstract Management education has the responsibility to provide industry with graduates equipped with relevant management competencies (Christon 2002). This paper agrees with this view and reports on the first and second stages of a longitudinal study that explores ...
National Association for Gambling Studies (Australia) 2004 Conference Proceedings 72 A PROFILE OF... more National Association for Gambling Studies (Australia) 2004 Conference Proceedings 72 A PROFILE OF PROBLEM GAMBLING CLIENTS IN NORTHERN NSW Barry Evans, Yvonne Corrigan, Jeremy Buultjens, John Haw, Nerilee Hing & Helen Breen Contact: Associate Professor Nerilee ...
ABSTRACT This is the final report of a three stage project examining the gaming machine playing b... more ABSTRACT This is the final report of a three stage project examining the gaming machine playing behaviour of Sydney registered club members of different social, demographic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds. This report presents an evaluation of the current and future adequacy of services for people with gambling problems who are from populations identified as most at risk of developing a problem with gaming machine gambling. The other reports from this project are Poker Machine Playing and Problem Gambling Amongst Members of Sydney’s Registered Clubs and Socio-Demographic Characteristics of Resident Populations Supporting Poker Machine Playing in Sydney’s Registered Clubs.
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