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JOURNAL OF GAMBLING ISSUES
Volume -, Issue 26, Pages 69-88Publisher
CENTRE ADDICTION & MENTAL HEALTH-CAMH
DOI: 10.4309/jgi.2011.26.6
Keywords
gambling; quality of life; ethnicity; New Zealand
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- Ministry of Health
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The aim of the current study is to examine the impacts of gambling among four different ethnic groups within New Zealand (i. e., Maori, Pakeha, Pacific peoples, and Chinese and Korean peoples). Four thousand and sixty-eight Pakeha, 1,162 Maori, 1,031 Pacific people, and 984 Chinese and Korean people took part in a telephone interview that assessed their gambling participation and their quality of life. Results showed a number of differences between ethnic groups. For the Maori and Pacific samples, there were significant associations between gambling participation (especially time spent on electronic gaming machines) and lower ratings in a number of life domains. In contrast to the findings for the Maori and Pacific peoples, which showed predominantly negative associations between gambling modes and people's self ratings of their domains of life, the findings for Pakeha and for Chinese and Korean peoples were more mixed and the associations predominantly positive.
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