A comparative profile of the internet gambler: Demographic characteristics, game-play patterns, and problem gambling status

New Media and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1123-1141

  Wood, Robert T ^a   Williams, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

expenditures; gambling; gaming; Internet; methods; online; pathological; patterns; problem; survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 81055132920     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444810397650     Document Type: Article

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