“UCLA Gambling Studies Program plans a survey to gather information about students’ possibly excessive online gambling and gaming habits
As endless hours in front of a screen go by, more and more people may be getting sucked into the personality and life of the character they are playing in a video game, or of the faceless gambler in an online casino, betting from the comforts of their own home.
In order to assess how big of a problem these forms of addictive behavior are becoming, the UCLA Gambling Studies Program designed a study that would pinpoint the prevalence of problematic video gaming and Internet gambling among UCLA students in the form of a massive online survey.
“The genesis of this study came about after we started to see more students and younger patients with Internet gambling and video game addictions,” said Timothy Fong, codirector of the program. “It led us to wonder how big of a problem this was…”
Daily Bruin (07/09/07)
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