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The experience of high-frequency gambling behavior of older adult females in the United Kingdom
— an interpretative phenomenological analysis | | Author(s) | Julie Pattinson, Adrian Parke |
| Journal title | Journal of Women and Aging, vol 29, no 3, 2017 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, 2017 |
| Pages | pp 243-253 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Older women ; Gambling ; Qualitative Studies ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | The prevalence of older adult female gambling participation and gambling disorder is increasing in the UK; but there is a paucity of published research for us to understand possible risk factors for frequent gambling in this demographic. This study aimed to identify and explore motivations and patterns of gambling behaviour in high-frequency older adult female gamblers in the UK, from the perspective of the individual and in the context of their experience of ageing. Ten UK older adult female high-frequency gamblers (mean age 70.4 years) were recruited via stratified purposive sampling. Data was collected via semi-structured interviews and analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Three core themes representative of the experience of this phenomenon emerged from the transcripts, including filling voids, emotional escape and overspending. The present study has provided a contextualised understanding of motivating factors and several age-related vulnerabilities that may account for high gambling frequency in this population. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170630226 A |
| Classmark | BD: ET5: 3DP: 8 |
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