KOCKANJE - ZABAVA ILI OPASNA OVISNOST?
GAMBLING - FUN OR DANGEROUS ADDICTION?

Summary/Abstract: In the last few years, gambling research is all about, and the theme is more current and represented due to serious consequences (social, family, moral) caused by it . The aim of the paper is to examine the frequency and gambling habits of high school students in Dubrovnik, as well as to determine whether there is a correlation between sociodemographic characteristics of the respondents and the frequency of gambling. In the study, 162 secondary school students from Dubrovnik (Grammar schools and Vocational Secondary Schools) participated in the study, with the male representation being higher (N = 106, 65.4%) than female (N = 56, 34.6%). To answer the set goal, we used two instruments: Questionnaire on General Sociodemographic Data, and Gambling Activity Questionnaire (Rsion, Dodig, Huić, and Kranzelić,2011).The results showed that 78.4% of the enrolled students played games of chance (in any form) at least once in their life, and only 21.6% of the participants had never used any form of happiness. Sports betting (51.20%) was the most common form of gambling in Dubrovnik. Then, they followed lottery games like Lotto, Bingo and Eurojackpot (47.50%), while the least represented was roulette (21%). Given the socio-demographic characteristics of the sample, it was found that male-female students gambled more than female gender peers, and considering the type of school they were attending, it was found that the grammar school students were less skilful than the students of vocational secondary schools. The obtained results could serve as guidelines for planning the development of adolescent risk prevention programs.

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