Personne : Turcotte, Daniel
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Problem gambling in adolescence : an analysis conducted from the actor’s perspective
2017-02-28, Tremblay, Joël, Savard, Annie-Claude, Turcotte, Daniel
The objective of this study is, by using the general theory of rationality (GTR), to better understand the rationale underlying gambling behavior in adolescents considered to have gambling problems. The study explore gambling associated benefits, negative consequences of gambling, and the adolescents’ perceptions of the severity of their gambling behavior. The qualitative research is based on semi-structured interviews with 31 adolescents considered as having gambling problems. The analysis revealed that gambling behavior are based on a threefold rationality: instrumental, cognitive and axiological. The GTR allows to better understand why most of them do not consider to have gambling problems.
Problem gambling among adolescents: toward a social and interactionist reading
2015-01-12, Tremblay, Joël, Savard, Annie-Claude, Turcotte, Daniel
There are two aspects that distinguish the approaches used to conceptualize problem gambling in adolescence. The first aspect concerns the type of variables involved in conceptualizing the phenomenon: most approaches integrate variables of an individual nature in their modelling and give little consideration to social type variables. The second aspect concerns the distinction between determinism and interactionism: many of the approaches seem to follow a determinist line of thinking and few consider people as social actors in interaction with their environment. Consequently, this article aims to conceptually prepare the ground for later studies that will adopt a more sociological and interactionist approach. To do so, the theoretical perspectives that are most commonly used in conceptualizing the phenomenon will be analysed by way of the two above aspects. A new analysis perspective will then be presented, namely the general theory of rationality (GTR) by Raymond Boudon. The GTR proposes a theoretical reversal to other approaches by focusing on social actors and variables of a social nature rather than on a person's psychology. In this sense, the theory adopts a viewpoint that has not been greatly employed in the analysis of adolescent problem gambling.
"La première fois que j’ai joué..." : l’expérience d’adolescents considérés comme ayant des difficultés avec les jeux de hasard et d’argent
2016-05-19, Tremblay, Joël, Savard, Annie-Claude, Turcotte, Daniel
Notre étude vise à décrire les premières expériences de jeux de hasard et d’argent (JHA) d’adolescents ayant développé des habitudes problématiques sur ce plan concernant :a) la nature des activités de JHA, b) la signification des premières expériences au regard des bénéfices et des aspects attrayants des JHA, et c) la progression vers des comportements problématiques. Le devis de recherche qualitatif s’appuie sur des analyses secondaires de données issues d’entrevues semi-structurées réalisées auprès de 31 adolescents présentant des habitudes problématiques de JHA et en traitement pour leur consommation de substances psychoactives (SPA). L’analyse des propos des adolescents révèle que les bénéfices associés aux premières expériences de JHA et à leur exacerbation sont de nature matérielle, émotive et sociale. Les résultats sont analysés à la lumière du contexte social dans lequel les adolescents évoluent : popularité de certains jeux, importance de la performance, la richesse et de la recherche de plaisir.