Examination of Chinese gambling problems through a socio-historical- cultural perspective

TheScientificWorldJournal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages 1694-1704

  Tse, Samson ^a   Yu, Alex C H ^b   Rossen, Fiona ^c   Wang, Chong Wen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Addiction; Chinese history; Culture; Gaming

Indexed keywords

CHINESE; CULTURAL FACTOR; HISTORY; HUMAN; ITALY; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; ASIAN; CHINA; GEOGRAPHY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; GAMBLING; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 78349292244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2010.167     Document Type: Review

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