Research project Problem gambling among youth

The overall aim of the project was to study problem gambling among youth – defined as gambling with potentially negative social, economic and health-related consequences – and associations with individual, family-related and school-contextual conditions.

The intention was to analyse which individual and family-related characteristics are associated with problem gambling, and how problem gambling is related to young people’s self-reported health, life satisfaction, and future orientation.

Another central ambition was to investigate to what extent problem gambling differs across schools, and to study associations between problem gambling and school-contextual features in terms of sociodemographic characteristics and school climate. The data was derived from the Stockholm School Survey, which is performed biennially among students in grade 9 and in the grade 2 of upper secondary school in Stockholm.