The Practice of Gambling Among Youths in Australia

The report analyzes the addiction of gambling among youths in Australia. It describes an analysis and report on the rising concern of gambling that has evolved as one of the major public health concern among the youths with the help of survey questionnaire. The survey was conducted among a group of 10 young youths in the age of 11 to 18 years old in the country of Australia.

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Title – The practice of gambling among the youths in Australia
Brief Summary
The concept of gambling involves a cross cultural and a global procedure that encircles
around the wagering of money or assets of the monitory values. The addiction of the procedure
of gambling can be defined as the bio-psychosocial disorder that is mostly characterized by the
behavior including maladaptive patterns (Studer et al., 2016). The industry of gambling has
emerged as a prominent social and economic force with some of the significant effect on the
generation of the revenue and the creation of the job (Blinn-Pike, 2017). The youth of this
current generation tends to hold positive attitudes towards the rewards of gambling like the
context of relaxation, entertainment, financial benefits which actually holds a negative impact on
the health and the life of the individual. Throughout the years, many parts of the developing
world have been experiencing unprecedented increase in the participation of the activity of
gambling specially among the youths, who are the most vulnerable group of population among
the society. The assignments describes an detailed analysis and report on the rising concern of
gambling that has evolved as one of the major public health concern among the youths with the
help of survey questionnaire (Quintero, 2017). The following survey will be conducted among a
group of 10 young youths in the age of 11 to 18 years old in the country of Australia. The survey
questionnaire will include relevant demographic questions, questions regarding the beliefs,
attitudes and options regarding the ordinal responses on the survey participants, query over the
protective and the risk factors like the environmental, social, cultural, geographical and the
physical context. The participants will also be queried regarding their outcomes of the interest
and factors related to the official population from governmental agencies.

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Survey –
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/
1IfXAmHaUi0PUWCznRZzQgnGDynTGKvewvnQq1QXfVHs/edit
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/
1IfXAmHaUi0PUWCznRZzQgnGDynTGKvewvnQq1QXfVHs/prefill
Description and purpose -
1. What is your age?
2. What is your gender?
3. What is the highest degree or level of school you have completed?
4. Estimated household income
5. Household composition or type
6. If you want to make money in a short span of time, do you think gambling is a good
option? Rate your engagement level in this scenario
7. Do you think personal skill games like the pool, darts, coin tossing, online video games
can be used to practice gamble? Rate the possibility according to your belief.
8. Could you please tell me which of these you have participated in during the last 12
months
9. Have you ever participated in any Personal challenges like a dare?
10. Have you ever got bet/gambled in some other way

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11. Have you ever got peer pressured to get involved in any sort of gambling?
12. Are you in any kind of stress or depression?
13. Are you interested in online video games and internet gambling that are played for fun?
14. Have you ever had to lie to people important to you about how much you gambled?
15. Do you belong to the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community?
16. Have you spend any time doing voluntary work through an organization or group?
17. How well do you speak English?
18. Are you a citizen of Australia?
19. Do you ever need someone to help with, or be with them for, communication activities?
The following questions were included in the survey questionnaire for the youth community
belonging to 11 to 18 years of age. The questions illustrates the level of poverty, the necessity for
money, the depression and the type of family that impacts on the psychology of the youth
towards the practice of gambling. The addiction of the procedure of gambling can be defined as
the bio-psychosocial disorder that is mostly characterized by the behavior including maladaptive
patterns (Elga et al., 2018). The above questions and the survey includes the demographic
questions like asking about the age, the gender and the level of the degree or the qualification of
the participants together with the estimated household income and the composition of the
household. It furthermore illustrates the tendency of the participants towards making money in
shirt time and their engagement towards the possibility of gambling. The survey furthermore
queries the participants regarding their personal belief and attitudes towards the practice of
gambling and whether they have ever got influenced by their friends to engage in gambling
activity. With the help of the surveys related to the population health services and the
governmental agencies, some of the questions that are relevant are included in the above survey

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(Barrense-Dias, Berchtold & Suris, 2018). These includes enquiring the origin of the
participants, the classification of the aboriginal community participants since the aboriginal and
the Torres strait islander people have the tendency towards gambling and alcohol consumption.
Queries regarding the fluency in English and their participation in any voluntary work for any
nongovernmental organization have also been included to understand their psychology towards
he earning of money and the purpose for their life (So et al., 2017). To summarize, the survey
was conducted to understand and identify the level of gambling engagement and the participation
of the youths in their daily living and how the procedure of gambling attracts them.

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