Download or read book Religious and Spiritual Predictors of Gambling Participation and Gambling Problems Among College Students written by Donald Jacob Yorgason and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study used structural equation modeling to assess spiritual and religious predictors of gambling problems and gambling participation. College students from state and religiously affiliated schools reported on their gambling participation and problems, as well as their spirituality, religious behavior and degree of religious affiliation. Additionally, participants reported their perceptions regarding peer gambling behavior, peer gambling approval, and church member gambling approval. The results indicated higher spirituality predicted fewer gambling problems, but only for women. Peer approval of gambling and church member approval of gambling predicted higher gambling frequency. Peer approval of gambling also predicted more gambling problems. Peer and church member approval of gambling completely mediated the relationships between religiosity and church affiliation and gambling frequency and problems. These same relationships were partially mediated for spirituality. Religious variables were predictive of gambling frequency and problems until peer and church member approval were included as mediators. These findings suggest that religious variables influence gambling primarily in an indirect way by influencing peer groups or perceptions of peer approval.
Download or read book The Effect of Gambling on Religious and Spiritual Struggles written by Jennifer Tegan Grant and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research has shown associations between religion and spirituality and various addictive behaviors, such as substance use disorders and excessive internet pornography use. However, at present, only one published article has considered the relationship between gambling addiction and the negative aspects of religion and spirituality, also known as Religious and Spiritual Struggles (RSS). This study aimed to examine the relationship between gambling problems and RSS in order to better understand how much problem gambling severity predicts RSS cross-sectionally and over a 6-month time-period. The study used secondary data (N = 598) and controlled for neuroticism, which is known to be strongly associated with RSS and gambling problems, as well as age, gender, income, and type of game played. As hypothesized, problem gambling severity uniquely predicted RSS at baseline and at a 6-month follow-up. The study also explored the relationship between gambling motives and related cognitions and both RSS and problem gambling severity, based on previous research suggesting a possible association. Results showed that gambling related cognitions predicted demonic, and ultimate meaning struggles only. Enhancement motives also predicted all but moral struggles at baseline and coping motives predicted divine, ultimate meaning, and doubt struggles at baseline. Further research is necessary to understand the nature of links between gambling and RSS, and how gambling related cognitions and motives may affect them. It is also recommended that clinicians address RSS when treating addiction, especially Gambling Disorder.
Download or read book Predictors of Different Types of Recreational Gambling Among College Students written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current study examined the prevalence, frequency, and predictors of gambling among young adult college students. Nine hundred and fourteen undergraduates from a Mid-Atlantic public university completed a survey to assess gambling behaviors and problems, along with various psychosocial factors that may account for gambling behaviors. Among the entire sample, 53% (n= 461) reported participating in some form of gambling activity during the past year. The most frequently endorsed gambling activity was playing board or card games for money, followed by playing the lottery, and betting on games of personal skill. In contrast to expectations, online gambling was not prevalent. Most student gamblers in this sample gambled for recreational reasons; only 2.5% and 1.5% fell in the problem or pathological range, respectively. Hierarchical regression analyses found different predictors for the two types of gambling, gaming activities and sports betting. Being male and high on novelty/excitement seeking were significantly related to the number of gaming activities participated in during the past year by college students. Binge drinking showed a strong trend as a predictor. For sports betting, being male accounted for the greatest amount of variance and binge drinking in the past year emerged as the only other significant predictor. Being Caucasian, however, showed a strong explanatory trend. Together, these findings provide valuable information about the predictors of college students' recreational gambling, which was found to represent the vast majority of all gambling behaviors among this sample of college students.
Download or read book Predictors of Gambling Behavior Among College Students written by Jane-Wang Chiu and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Predictors of Problem Gambling Among College Students written by Duncan Hulsey and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Pursuit of Winning written by Masood Zangeneh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-25 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As gambling become ever more ubiquitous, more people are risking their finances, family lives, and health in their desire to be the winner that takes it all. This book brings together an international panel of experts to present a wide variety of perspectives on problem gambling, and test popular addiction and disease models in the field. Early chapters examine the psychology of gambling, before moving on to the pastime’s associated irrational ideas. The seven chapters in the second half are devoted to evidence-based interventions from a variety of clinical orientations. Case examples, Q&A sections, and a glossary add extra readability to the coverage.
Download or read book Problem and Pathological Gambling written by James P Whelan and published by Hogrefe Publishing GmbH. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 30 years there has been a dramatic increase in the availability of convenient and legal gambling opportunities. Accompanying this proliferation of gambling is a growing understanding that between 5% and 9% of adults experience significant to severe problems due to their gambling activities. These problems have become a real health concern, with substantial costs to individuals, families, and communities. The objective of this book is to provide the clinician – or graduate student – with essential information about problem and pathological gambling. After placing this behavioral addiction and its co-occurring difficulties in perspective, by describing its proliferation, the associated costs, and diagnostic criteria and definitions, the authors present detailed information on a strategy to assess and treat gambling problems in an outpatient setting.
Download or read book Spirituality in College Students Lives written by Alyssa Bryant Rockenbach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirituality in College Students’ Lives draws on data from a large-scale national survey examining the spiritual development of undergraduates and how colleges and universities can be more effective in facilitating students’ spiritual growth. In this book, contributors from the fields of education, psychology, sociology, social work, and religion present research-based studies that explore the importance of students’ spirituality and the impact of the college experience on their spiritual development. Offering a wide range of theoretical perspectives and worldviews, this volume also includes reflections from distinguished researchers and practitioners which highlight implications for practice. This original edited collection explores: Emerging theoretical frames and analytical approaches; differences in spiritual expressions and experiences among sub-populations; the impact of campus contexts; and how college experiences shape spiritual outcomes. Spirituality in College Students’ Lives is an important resource for higher education and student affairs faculty, administrators, and practitioners interested in nurturing the inner lives of college students.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adolescent Gambling written by Mark Griffiths and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Griffiths has carried out extensive research into why some adolescents get hooked on gambling, how they gamble and what can be done about it. In this book he provides an overview of adolescent gambling worldwide.
Download or read book Baseball as a Road to God written by John Sexton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality. For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other. Baseball as a Road to God is about touching that something that lies beyond logical understanding. Sexton illuminates the surprisingly large number of mutual concepts shared between baseball and religion: faith, doubt, conversion, miracles, and even sacredness among many others. Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball’s most historic moments, Baseball as Road to God will enthrall baseball fans whatever their religious beliefs may be. In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, Sexton elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game, or even a national pastime: It can be a road to enlightenment.
Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Up Unequal Gender and Socioeconomic Differences in Young People s Health and Well being Health Behaviour in School aged Children HBSC Study written by Inchley J. and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countries included in the 2013/2014 survey data: Albania -- Armenia -- Austria -- Belgium (Flemish) -- Belgium (French) -- Bulgaria -- Canada -- Croatia -- Czech Republic -- Denmark -- England -- Estonia -- Finland -- France -- Germany -- Greece -- Greenland -- Hungary -- Iceland -- Ireland -- Israel -- Italy -- Latvia -- Lithuania -- Luxembourg -- Malta -- Netherlands -- Norway -- Poland -- Portugal -- Republic of Moldova -- Romania -- Russian Federation -- Scotland -- Slovakia -- Slovenia -- Spain -- Sweden -- Switzerland -- Ukraine -- Wales -- (former) Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Download or read book Addictions Counseling Today written by Kevin G. Alderson and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the new DSM-V classifications for addiction with an emphasis on CACREP, neuroscience, and treatment, this provocative, contemporary text is an essential reference for both students and practitioners wanting to gain a deeper understanding of those with addiction.
Download or read book Paradoxes of Gambling Behaviour written by Willem A. Wagenaar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does a large proportion of the population engage in some form of gambling, although they know they are most likely to lose, and that the gambling industry makes huge profits? Do gamblers simply accept their losses as fate, or do they believe that they will be able to overcome the negative odds in some miraculous way? The paradox is complicated by the fact that those habitual gamblers who are most aware that systematic losses cannot be avoided, are the least likely to stop gambling. Detailed analyses of actual gambling behaviour have shown gamblers to be victims of a variety of cognitive illusions, which lead them to believe that the general statistical rules of determining the probability of loss do not apply to them as individuals. The designers of gambling games cleverly exploit these illusions in order to promote a false perception of the situation. Much of the earlier interest in gambling behaviour has been centred on the traditional theories of human decision-making, where decisions are portrayed as choices among bets. This led to a tradition of studying decision-making in experiments on betting. In this title, originally published in 1988, the author argues that betting behaviour should not be used as a typical example of human decision-making upon which a general psychological theory could be founded, and that these traditional views can in no way account for the gambling behaviour reported in this book.
Download or read book Latent Curve Models written by Kenneth A. Bollen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-12-23 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An effective technique for data analysis in the social sciences The recent explosion in longitudinal data in the social sciences highlights the need for this timely publication. Latent Curve Models: A Structural Equation Perspective provides an effective technique to analyze latent curve models (LCMs). This type of data features random intercepts and slopes that permit each case in a sample to have a different trajectory over time. Furthermore, researchers can include variables to predict the parameters governing these trajectories. The authors synthesize a vast amount of research and findings and, at the same time, provide original results. The book analyzes LCMs from the perspective of structural equation models (SEMs) with latent variables. While the authors discuss simple regression-based procedures that are useful in the early stages of LCMs, most of the presentation uses SEMs as a driving tool. This cutting-edge work includes some of the authors' recent work on the autoregressive latent trajectory model, suggests new models for method factors in multiple indicators, discusses repeated latent variable models, and establishes the identification of a variety of LCMs. This text has been thoroughly class-tested and makes extensive use of pedagogical tools to aid readers in mastering and applying LCMs quickly and easily to their own data sets. Key features include: Chapter introductions and summaries that provide a quick overview of highlights Empirical examples provided throughout that allow readers to test their newly found knowledge and discover practical applications Conclusions at the end of each chapter that stress the essential points that readers need to understand for advancement to more sophisticated topics Extensive footnoting that points the way to the primary literature for more information on particular topics With its emphasis on modeling and the use of numerous examples, this is an excellent book for graduate courses in latent trajectory models as well as a supplemental text for courses in structural modeling. This book is an excellent aid and reference for researchers in quantitative social and behavioral sciences who need to analyze longitudinal data.
Download or read book Handbook of Spirituality Religion and Mental Health written by David H. Rosmarin and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research has indicated that spiritual and religious factors are strongly tied to a host of mental health variables, both positive and negative. That body of research has significantly grown since publication of the first edition 20 years ago. The second edition of the Handbook of Spirituality and Religion and Mental Health identifies not only whether religion and spirituality influence mental health and vice versa, but also how and for whom. The contents have been re-organized to speak specifically to categories of disorders in the first part of the book and then more broadly to life satisfaction issues in the latter part of the book. Hence 100% of the book is now revised with new chapters and new contributors.
