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KMID : 0897520140190010003
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Journal of Korean Association of Social Psychiatry
2014 Volume.19 No. 1 p.3 ~ p.8
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Potential Problems of Internet Gambling
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Choi Young-Sook
Shin Kyung-Chul
Choi Yong-Sung
Park Han-Son
Lim Mee-Rae
Shin Yong-Jin
Lee Ho-Sun
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Abstract
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Pathological gambling is persistent and recurrent maladaptive gambling behavior that disrupts personal, family, and vocational pursuits, and causes not only problems of personal level but also of family up to the society at large. Internet gambling is gambling mediated by internet in the cyberspace. Environment for gambling has been changed for several years. Internet gambling enabled people starting gambling more easily, and provided greater chance for being addicted to gambling via gambling websites. Thereby, total market and websites for internet gambling has been grown up in recent years. Although there is no clear relationship between the gambling environment and development of problems related to gambling, gambling behavior tends to be more problematic by internet gambling than by offline gambling. In addition, internet gamblers are younger and have more serious gambling problems than offline gamblers. Problem internet gamblers less tend to seek help than offline gamblers. As the adolescents more popularly use internet, internet gambling behavior has been abruptly increased, and adolescent internet gamblers are at the risk of developing internet use problem and internet addictive behaviors. There is little attention to the risks related to internet gambling. Works for increasing public awareness about potential problems of internet gambling and special treatment and preventive plans for problem internet gambling are necessary.
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KEYWORD
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Internet gambling, Internet gambler, Offline gambler, Problem gambling
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