Also, as recent research have suggested, “the increased availability of legal gambling appears to have led to some increases in the prevalence of adolescent gambling and to the development of gambling problems among young people” ( Calaldo et al., 2017, p. As a result, contemporary youth live in environments “where gambling opportunities continue to grow, are widely available and viewed as socially acceptable forms of entertainment” ( Derevensky & Gilbeau, 2015). In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the range of available online gambling activities ( Gainsbury et al., 2012 Griffiths and Parke, 2010 King et al., 2010), and internet gambling has been desribed as one of the fastest growing gambling-related industries ( Schaffer et al., 2010). Globally, gambling is a widespread activity among young people, and for the majority, it constitutes a harmless pastime activity ( Dean, 2011). The full terms of this licence may be seen at. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Copyright © 2018, Søren Kristiansen, Maria Camilla Trabjerg, Nanna Reventlov Lauth and Anders Malling.

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