cultural factors and gambling behavior

What is it about?

This study assessed whether the subjective cultures through which subjects interpret and enact their experience of the social environment play a major role in increasing (or decreasing) the probability of pathological gambling.

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Why is it important?

The study highlights that subjective cultures, thus the way people position themselves within the cultural context, constitutes a factor to be taken into account in order to understand gambling better. From this standpoint, our study represents a contribution to that line of thought that is striving to underline the role of culture in gambling, a role that has so far seemed rather marginal in the field of gambling studies