Player account-based gambling: Potentials for behaviour-based research methodologies

International Gambling Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 153-171

  Gainsbury, Sally ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Gambling; Internet; Methodology; Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960985954     PISSN: 14459795     EISSN: 14794276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14459795.2011.571217     Document Type: Article

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