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Parents knowledge about youth gambling in Croatia - preliminary study results

Since 2010, a team of scientist at the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb continuously conduct a national project called “Youth Gambling in Croatia”. Research results show that youth gambling is widespread risk behaviour among Croatian adolescents - 82% of high-school students gambled at least once in their lifetime, around 20% regularly bet on sport events, while 12.9% of young people developed adverse psychosocial consequences related to gambling (Ricijas et al., 2011 ; Dodig, 2013). This presentation is a result of new pilot- research within project activities called “Parents’ perception of youth gambling”. Study was conducted in May/June 2015 with high-school students and their parents in a town of Ivanic Grad, while the final study will be conducted in fall 2015. Both subgroups of participants were given a parallel form of questionnaire aimed at exploring gambling activities, knowledge about gambling, attitudes towards gambling and industry etc. The aim of this paper is to explore parents’ knowledge about their children’s gambling, as well as symptom of adverse psychosocial consequences, while comparing them to children’s self-report. Due to increased availability and accessibility of games of chance in Croatia, together with alarming results of conducted studies, project team developed and piloted youth gambling prevention program “Who really wins?”. This 9 week program is primarily indented for adolescents, but also includes one 2 hour lecture for parents. Results of this study will serve as a base-line for further research, but also as indicators for developing more efficient preventive interventions aimed at families as a whole.

parents ; youth ; gambling

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