This is a bibliography that maps the major research areas in gambling studies, organized by population, behavior, and policy. It spans public health and regulatory approaches, gambling among youth, college students, and military veterans, and emerging gambling-like behaviors such as cryptocurrency trading and high-frequency stock trading. Overall, it frames gambling as a multidimensional public health issue, linking individual risk factors and mental health to broader policy, prevention, and treatment strategies.
Gambling Policy
- Kerr, J. (2018). How can legislators protect sport from the integrity threat posed by cryptocurrencies? International Sports Law Journal, 18(1–2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40318-018-0132-0
- National Center for Responsible Gaming. (2017). Gambling and Public Health: A Guide for Policy Makers.
- Ukhova, D., Marionneau, V., Nikkinen, J., & Wardle, H. (2024). Public health approaches to gambling: a global review of legislative trends. The Lancet. Public health, 9(1), e57–e67. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00221-9
- Wardle, H., Reith, G. Langham, E. & Rogers, R.D. (2019). Gambling and public health: We need policy action to prevent harm. BMJ, 365, l1807. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.l1807
College & Young Adult Gambling
- Shead, N. W., Derevensky, J. L., Fong, T. W., & Gupta, R. (2012). Characteristics of Internet Gamblers Among a Sample of Students at a Large, Public University in Southwestern United States. Journal of College Student Development, 53(1), 133-148.
- Bailis, D. S., Single, A. N., Brais, N. J. J. R., & Schellenberg, B. J. I. (2023). Going for broke: Self-compassion, risky decision-making, and differences in problem gambling severity among undergraduates. Self and Identity, 22(3), 379–407. doi:10.1080/15298868.2022.2104363
- Martin RJ, Nelson SE, Gallucci AR. (2016). Game on: past year gambling, gambling related problems, and fantasy sports gambling among college athletes and non-athletes. Journal of Gambling Studies, 32, 567–79
- Martin RJ, Nelson SE, Gallucci AR, Lee JGL. (2018). Daily and season-long fantasy sports participation and gambling-related problems among a sample of college students at three universities. International Gambling Studies, 18, 395–407
- Wang X, Won D, Jeon HS. (2021). Predictors of sports gambling among college students: the role of the theory of planned behavior and problem gambling severity. International Journal of Environmental Research in Public Health, 18, 1803.
- Yawen Shen. (2023). Determinants of problem sports betting among college students: moderating roles of betting frequency and impulsive betting tendency. BMC Psychology, 11(1), 1–11. https://doi-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/10.1186/s40359-023-01387-w
Cryptocurrency & Stock Market Trading
- Arthur, J. N., Williams, R. J., & Delfabbro, P. H. (2016). The conceptual and empirical relationship between gambling, investing, and speculation. Journal of behavioral addictions, 5(4), 580–591. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.5.2016.084
- Delfabbro, P., King, D., Williams, J., & Georgiou, N. (2021). Cryptocurrency trading, gambling and problem gambling. Addictive behaviors, 122, 107021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.107021
- Grall-Bronnec, M., Sauvaget, A., Boutin, C., Bulteau, S., Jiménez-Murcia, S., Fernández-Aranda, F., Challet-Bouju, G., & Caillon, J. (2017). Excessive trading, a gambling disorder in its own right? A case study on a French disordered gamblers cohort. Addictive Behaviors, 64, 340–348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2015.12.006
- Johnson, B., Co, S., Sun, T., Lim, C. C. W., Stjepanović, D., Leung, J., Saunders, J. B., & Chan, G. C. K. (2023). Cryptocurrency trading and its associations with gambling and mental health: A scoping review. Addictive behaviors, 136, 107504. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107504
- Mills, D. J., & Nower, L. (2019). Preliminary findings on cryptocurrency trading among regular gamblers: A new risk for problem gambling?. Addictive behaviors, 92, 136–140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.01.005
- Mosenhauer, M., Newall, P. W. S., & Walasek, L. (2021). The stock market as a casino: Associations between stock market trading frequency and problem gambling. Journal of behavioral addictions, 10(3), 683–689. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2021.00058
- Oksanen, A., Hagfors, H., Vuorinen, I., & Savolainen, I. (2022). Longitudinal perspective on cryptocurrency trading and increased gambling problems: a 3 wave national survey study. Public health, 213, 85–90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2022.10.002
- Oksanen, A., Mantere, E., Vuorinen, I., & Savolainen, I. (2022). Gambling and online trading: emerging risks of real-time stock and cryptocurrency trading platforms. Public health, 205, 72–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2022.01.027
- Roza, T. H., Tavares, H., Kessler, F. H. P., & Passos, I. C. (2023). Problematic Trading: gambling-like behavior in day trading and cryptocurrency investing. Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.https://doi.org/10.47626/2237-6089-2023-0623
- Steinmetz, F. (2022). The interrelations of cryptocurrency and gambling: Results from a representative survey. Computers in Human Behavior, 138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107437
Military & Veteran Gambling
- Etuk, R., Shirk, S.D., Grubbs, J., & Kraus, S.W. (2020). Gambling Problems in US Military Veterans. Current Addiction Reports, 7, 210–228. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-020-00310-2
- Levy, L., Tracy, J.K. (2018). Gambling Disorder in Veterans: A Review of the Literature and Implications for Future Research. Journal of Gambling Studies, 34, 1205–1239. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-018-9749-z
- Metcalf, O., Lawrence-Wood, E., Baur, J., Van Hooff, M., Forbes, D., O'Donnell, M., Sadler, N., Hodson, S., Benassi, H., Varker, T., Battersby, M., McFarlane, A. C., & Cowlishaw, S. (2022). Prevalence of gambling problems, help-seeking, and relationships with trauma in veterans. PloS one, 17(5), e0268346. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268346
- Sharp, M. L., Fear, N. T., Rona, R. J., Wessely, S., Greenberg, N., Jones, N., & Goodwin, L. (2015). Stigma as a barrier to seeking health care among military personnel with mental health problems. Epidemiologic reviews, 37, 144–162. https://doi.org/10.1093/epirev/mxu012
- Shirk, S. D., Kelly, M. M., Kraus, S. W., Potenza, M. N., Pugh, K., Waltrous, C., Federman, E., Krebs, C., & Drebing, C. E. (2018). Gambling-related cognitive distortions predict level of function among US veterans seeking treatment for gambling disorders. The American journal on Addictions, 27(2), 108–115. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajad.12685
- van der Maas, M. & Nower, L. (2021). Gambling and military service: Characteristics, comorbidity, and problem severity in an epidemiological sample. Addictive Behaviors, 114, 106725. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106725
- Whiting, S. W., Potenza, M. N., Park, C. L., McKee, S. A., Mazure, C. M., & Hoff, R. A. (2016). Investigating veterans' pre-, peri-, and post-deployment experiences as potential risk factors for problem gambling. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 5(2), 13-20.
Responsible Gambling
- Blaszczynski, A., Collins, P., Fong, D., Ladouceur, R., Nower, L., Shaffer, H. J., Tavares, H., & Venisse, J. L. (2011). Responsible gambling: general principles and minimal requirements. Journal of gambling studies, 27(4), 565–573. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-010-9214-0
- Gainsbury, S. M., Abarbanel, B. L. L., Philander, K. S., & Butler, J. V. (2018). Strategies to customize responsible gambling messages: a review and focus group study. BMC public health, 18(1), 1381. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6281-0
- Gainsbury, S. M., Angus, D. J., Procter, L., & Blaszczynski, A. (2020). Use of Consumer Protection Tools on Internet Gambling Sites: Customer Perceptions, Motivators, and Barriers to Use. Journal of gambling studies, 36(1), 259–276. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-019-09859-8
- Shaffer, H. J., Ladouceur, R., & Blaszczynski, A. (2023). A Comment: Positive Play is a Subset of Responsible Gambling. Journal of gambling studies, 39(2), 1019–1025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-023-10204-3
Treatment for Problem Gambling
- Sapthiang, S., Van Gordon, W., Shonin, E., & Griffiths, M. D. (2019). Adolescent problem gambling requires community-level health promotion approaches. Addiction Research & Theory, 28(2), 91–94. https://doi.org/10.1080/16066359.2019.1590559
- Segura, A., Heyman, R.E., Ochshorn, J., & Smith Slep, A.M. (2024). A Meta-Review to Guide Military Screening and Treatment of Gambling Problems, Military Medicine, 189(5-6), e1362–e1373. https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usad426
- van der Tempel, J., McDermott, K., Niepage, M., Afifi, T. O., McMain, S., Jindani, F., … Zack, M. (2019). Examining the effects of mindfulness practice and trait mindfulness on gambling symptoms in women with gambling disorder: a feasibility study. International Gambling Studies, 20(1), 114–134. https://doi.org/10.1080/14459795.2019.1686766
Youth Gambling
- Bozzato, P., Longobardi, C., & Fabris, M. A. (2020). Problematic gambling behaviour in adolescents: prevalence and its relation to social, self-regulatory, and academic self-efficacy. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 25(1), 907–919. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2020.1772842
- Farhat, L. C., Wampler, J., Steinberg, M. A., Krishnan-Sarin, S., Hoff, R. A., & Potenza, M. N. (2021). Excitement-Seeking Gambling in Adolescents: Health Correlates and Gambling-Related Attitudes and Behaviors. Journal of gambling studies, 37(1), 43–57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-020-09960-3
- Grande-Gosende, A., Richard, J., Ivoska, W., & Derevensky, J. (2019). The relationship between bullying victimization and gambling among adolescents. International Gambling Studies, 20(1), 80–96. https://doi.org/10.1080/14459795.2019.1652669
- Hing, N., Thorne, H., Lole, L., Sproston, K., Hodge, N., & Rockloff, M. (2024). Influences on gambling during youth: comparisons between at-risk/problem, non-problem and non-gambling adolescents in Australia. Journal of Youth Studies, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2024.2378288
- Parrado-González, A., & León-Jariego, J. C. (2020). Exposure to gambling advertising and adolescent gambling behaviour. Moderating effects of perceived family support. International Gambling Studies, 20(2), 214–230. https://doi.org/10.1080/14459795.2020.1712737
- Rossi, R., & Nairn, A.. (2022). New Developments in Gambling Marketing: the Rise of Social Media Ads and Its Effect on Youth. Current Addiction Reports, 9(4), 385–391. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-022-00457-0