New Study: Problem Gambling Huge
A new study out of the United Kingdom has yielded some really interesting
results about problem gambling statistics in the land and online casino gambling
industries. For some time now all of the research and studies have concluded
that internet gambling has the same rates of problem gambling as the land
gambling counterparts. But that is not actually fully the case according to
researchers from the Nottingham Trent University and the Gambling Studies
Department. The study in question, 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey
project, was re-examined by the team of researchers to look for rates of problem
and addictive gambling according to their own measures and terms. The results
indicated that gambling at the online casinos can be as much as ten times more
addictive than land gambling.
The results of this new interpretation of the Gambling Prevalence Survey project
will be presented at the upcoming British Psychological Society’s Social
Psychology Conference that is taking place right now in Sheffield, England and
runs for just a couple of more days, through the 17th of the month. This
research interpretation is really big news within the online casino gambling
industry because of the big push on an international level for every country to
permit regulated internet gambling. It’s the internet that is the culprit in
these cases – research all over the world is looking at the addictive nature of
the internet and determining if this is serious growing problem.
As far as the online casinos are concerned, allegations that the pastime is ten
times more addicting than land gambling would fly directly in the face of other
contemporary research that indicates that the two industries are on par with
each other in terms of problem gambling levels and the addiction factor.
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