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KMID : 0614420150430030220
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Mental Health & Social Work
2015 Volume.43 No. 3 p.220 ~ p.249
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A Study about Youth Gambling Addiction Process : Based on Verbal Statements That Adults Experienced Gambling Addiction During Adolescence
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Ha Min-Jung
Park So-Youn
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Abstract
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This study was conducted with 13 study participants who had started gambling during adolescent years and became addicted in their adult years to examine what addiction process was gone through that onset of adolescent gambling became addicted and because of this what problems were caused. Data was composed of conducting in-depth interview and was analyzed by open coding, axial coding, selective coding in order, which is one of grounded theory methodology by Strauss and Corbin(1988).
Results were as follows. 108 concepts from open-codings, 35 sub-categories, and 14 categories were composed. As for axial coding, 15 categories were proposed as a paradigm model. As for causal condition, ‘high accessibility’, ‘easy pass through gateway to gambling’, as for contextual condition, ‘deviant achievement desire’, ‘gambling preparation’, ‘distorted cognition’, ‘confusion by in-separation’, as for phenomenon, ‘gambling fantasy’, as for intervening condition, ‘live by tied with gambling loop’, ‘become legal age for gambling’, ‘lack of social ethical consciousness’, ‘counseling which is blocked against wall’, as for action/reaction strategies, ‘give up self-identity’, ‘prepare gambling money regardless of means’, and results ‘deviant life aimed at luck’, ‘living as a outsider’ were proposed and verbal statements were described. As core category in selective coding, ‘a life that is trapped in a gambling vicious circle which is tied with the gambler’s self’ was proposed. Detail suggestion about prevention from gambling during adolescence were discussed.
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KEYWORD
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adolescent gambling, gambling addiction, grounded theory, youth gambling addiction process
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