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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

Who is with young people when they play gaming machines?

When playing arcade gaming machines, the majority (89 percent) of young people were with someone, typically a parent or guardian (57 percent). This also holds true for play on fruit and slot machines; 80 percent were with someone, usually a parent or guardian (60 percent).

For both types of gaming machines, only a minority (5 percent) were alone when they played. Boys were more likely to be alone when they are playing arcade gaming machines, than girls (6 percent compared with 2 percent).

Figure 17: Who young people were with when playing games and gaming machines

Figure 17 information

GAMSPEND2. Last time you did [this activity and/or these activities] who were you with?
Base: All 11 to 16 year olds answering who have played arcade gaming machines (1,417), fruit or slot machines (312).
Note: Multiple response question so the percentages in the chart and table do not sum to 100 percent.

Figure 17: Who young people were with when playing games and gaming machines.

Who were you with?	Percentage who were playing arcade gaming machines (multiple response question, therefore answers do not sum to 100 percent)	Percentage who were playing fruit or slot machine (multiple response question, therefore answers do not sum to 100 percent)
Parent(s), carer(s) or guardian(s)	57%	60%
Brother(s), sister(s) or friend(s) aged 17 years old or younger	38%	19%
Brother(s), sister(s) or friend(s) aged 18 years old or older	14%	16%
Others	10%	6%
I was alone	5%	5%

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Last updated: 9 November 2022

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