Attitudes towards gambling in Finland: a cross-sectional population study

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Association between ATGS-8 and the correlates

Variables	F/t	df	p	Positive attitude towards gambling¹associated with:
Socio-demographics
Gender (2 groups)	13.875	3495	p ≤ 0.001	Male gender
Age (7 groups)	16.530	6	p ≤ 0.001	Age groups between 18–54 years
Education in years (2 groups)	4.426	3495	p ≤ 0.001	12 years or more education
Marital status (4 groups)	5.434	3	p ≤ 0.001	Single status
Net income in Euro (5 groups)	7.968	4	p ≤ 0.001	Net wage > 2000 € or ≤ 500€ per month
Gambling behaviours
Past-year gambling participation (2 groups)	12.151	3495	p ≤ 0.001	Any gambling
Past-year gambling frequency (6 groups)	46.643	5	p ≤ 0.001	High frequency
Number of game types, past-year (6 groups)	53.937	5	p ≤ 0.001	Large number of game types gambled
Onset age of gambling (2 groups)	9.331	3265	p ≤ 0.001	Onset age less than 18
Past-year gambling severity, SOGS² (3 groups)	74.409	2	p ≤ 0.001	Non-problem gambler (score 0–2)
CSO of a problem gambler (2 groups)	7.448	3495	p ≤ 0.001	Non-CSO of the problem gambler
Perceived health and lifestyle
Self-rated health (2 groups)	2.910	3489	p = 0.004	Good, somewhat good or average general health
Loneliness (2 groups)	2.026	3495	p = 0.043	Never or rarely lonely
Smoking (2 groups)	2.686	3495	p = 0.007	Smoking daily or occasionally
Alcohol consumption³ (2 groups)	4.689	3109	p ≤ 0.001	Risky alcohol consumption

¹Total score for the Attitudes Towards Gambling Scale-8 (ATGS-8); ²SOGS, the South Oaks Gambling Screen, ³The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT-C), score for risky alcohol consumption ≥5 among women and ≥6 among men; CSO, concerned significant other of a problem gambler; Significance (p) is determined by one-way ANOVA (>2 groups) and t-test (2 groups); the data (n = 4484) were weighted based on gender, age and region of residence.

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