Report

Young People and Gambling 2022

Gambling Commission report produced by Ipsos on young people and their gambling behaviour, attitudes and awareness in 2022.

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Published
10 November 2022

Last updated
9 November 2022 - Changes

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Contents

• Young People and Gambling 2022

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• Executive summary
  • - Introduction
  • - Headline statistics
  • - Presentation and interpretation of data
  • - Acknowledgements
• Young people’s active involvement in gambling
  • - Summary
  • - Young people's active involvement in gambling
  • - Variations in active involvement in gambling
  • - Variations in active involvement in types of gambling activities
  • - Prevalence of non-problem, at risk or problem gambling
  • - Problem gambling by gender
  • - Problem gambling by age
  • - Problem gambling by ethnicity
• Experience of gambling
  • - Summary
  • - Overall gambling experience
  • - Overall gambling experience in the last 12 months
  • - Variations in gambling experience
• The Impact of gambling on young people
  • - Summary
  • - How gambling impacts on relations with friends and family
  • - How gambling makes young people feel
  • - The impact of gambling on sleep
  • - The impact of gambling on spending
  • - The impact of gambling on schoolwork
  • - Experience and impact of family members’ gambling
• Online gambling
  • - Summary
  • - Young people’s active involvement in online gambling
  • - Overall experience of online gambling
  • - Online gambling using parent's or guardian's accounts
  • - Awareness and use of in-game items in video games
• National Lottery play
  • - Summary
  • - Young people’s active involvement with lottery products
  • - Wider experience of lottery games
  • - Buying a National Lottery draw ticket or scratchcard
  • - Who young people are with when playing a National Lottery product?
• Games and gaming machines
  • - Summary
  • - Young people’s active involvement in games and gaming machines
  • - Overall experience of games and gaming machines play
  • - Who is with young people when they play gaming machines?
  • - Types of gaming machines
  • - Play in an adults-only area
• The Context for gambling participation
  • - Summary
  • - Setting gambling in the context of other risk-taking behaviours
  • - Setting gambling in the context of other activities
  • - Reasons why young people gamble
  • - Why young people don’t gamble
  • - Who young people were with when they gambled
• Attitudes towards and exposure to gambling
  • - Summary
  • - Young people’s views on gambling
  • - Feeling informed about gambling
  • - Being stopped from gambling
  • - Young people’s exposure to gambling adverts and promotions and frequency of exposure
  • - Content of gambling adverts and promotions seen
  • - Whether ever prompted to gamble by adverts and promotions
  • - Following gambling companies on social media
• Appendices
  • - Applying the DSM-IV-MR-J problem gambler screen
  • - Research design
  • - Sample profile
• List of gambling activities and definitions
  • - List of gambling activities
  • - Definitions

The Impact of gambling on young people

Contents

1. Summary From the Young People and Gambling survey 2022 this section of the report details a summary of the Impact of gambling on young people.
2. How gambling impacts on relations with friends and family From the Young People and Gambling survey 2022 this section of the report details how gambling impacts on relations with friends and family.
3. How gambling makes young people feel From the Young People and Gambling survey 2022 this section of the report details how gambling makes young people feel.
4. The impact of gambling on sleep From the Young People and Gambling survey 2022 this section of the report details the impact of gambling on sleep.
5. The impact of gambling on spending From the Young People and Gambling survey 2022 this section of the report details the impact of gambling on spending.
6. The impact of gambling on schoolwork From the Young People and Gambling survey 2022 this section of the report details the impact of gambling on schoolwork.
7. Experience and impact of family members’ gambling From the Young People and Gambling survey 2022 this section of the report details young peoples' experience and impact of family members’ gambling.

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Last updated: 9 November 2022

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