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Youth Gambling from the Perspective of High-School Counsellors

Gambling is a relatively new form of risk behaviour in our area. Modern Croatian and foreign scientific studies suggest that there is a considerable prevalence of problem gambling among high­school students. The aim of this paper is to explore how high­school counsellors perceive youth gambling. In addition to other tasks, they are responsible for detecting …

Adolescent Gambling: the Role of Sex, Some Family and School Factors

The aim of this article is to examine whether there are diffreneces between students prone to social or recreational gambling, i.e. prone to excessive or problematic gambling, and their colleagues who do not gamble, in terms of gender, socio-demographic characteristics of families and type of school, success and their absence from school. The study includes …