Report prepared on behalf of the Department for Education and Children's Services for the Independent Gambling Authority of South Australia
This study followed up several major studies of adolescents in South Australia, including the 2001 study of 505 adolescents undertaken by Delfabbro and Thrupp in 2001 and the S.A. Department for Families and Communities telephone survey of 629 young people in 2005.
The research examined: (1) The links between problem gambling and attitudes towards gambling, and peer and family gambling, (2) How young people gain access to adult forms of gambling before the age of 18, and (3) Young people's understanding of gambling odds, irrational beliefs about gambling, and their understanding of chance, probability and randomness.
