by Jerry "Jet" Whittaker

Jan 1, 2007

Adolescent gambling problem

For adolescent gamblers, gambling is associated with a number of problems. Few researches suggest that a direct relationship exists between age of onset of underage gambling and the severity of future gambling problems. Many empirical investigations have consistently shown that adolescent pathological gambling is positively related to the use of alcohol, tobacco, and addictive substances. It turns toward substance abuse and to criminality including stealing, drug pushing and prostitution. Other problems include suicide attempts, disruptions to relationships with family and friends and educational difficulties like truancy and poor academic performance.The causal relationship between gambling and family problems could be the reverse. Another study found that the majority of adolescent gambling machine players reported that family problems precipitated their addiction. The severity of adolescent gambling problems is associated with gambling regularly and with the amount of money spent and adolescents who gamble regularly and spend large amounts of money may be more likely to do so on a wide range of activities rather than on a few.

Inhabitant habit

Adolescent gamblers are likely to have one or both parents who gamble. Researcher found a direct relationship between adolescent pathological gambling and parent’s frequency of gambling on fruit machines. It is also found that adolescents whose parents are pathologically gambled were less likely to have gambling problems themselves. An inverse relationship can be found between parental and adolescent problem gambling. The adolescents may have been deterred from gambling by experiencing the problems generated by their parent’s excessive gambling. The adolescent problem gamblers may have perceived their parent’s gambling behaviour as not severe, given that parental gambling was assessed by the adolescents.

Keep an eye on adolescent

The gambling habit in adolecent can creat lots of problem like selling of personal items,  have large amount of cash on person, borrows from school friends without repaying, have unexplained absences from school, seems moody, unfocused, nervous or depressed, is overly worried with sports scores, and withdrawn from relationships, school groups or activities.

A harmless activity

Gambling is not at all harmless activity. It is a pastime that can develop into a disastrous problem that can affect anybody. Being able to access prevention and education services where one lives is vital to the recovery process. Educations must be able to classify signs of a gambling problem. Public consciousness and education about he problem gambling is vital to sound decision-making for parents and teens.

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