Problem gambling among adolescents: toward a social and interactionist reading
Authors: | Savard, Annie-Claude; Tremblay, Joël; Turcotte, Daniel |
Abstract: | 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. |
Document Type: | Article de recherche |
Issue Date: | 12 January 2015 |
Open Access Date: | Restricted access |
Document version: | VoR |
Permalink: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/17006 |
This document was published in: | International Gambling Studies, Vol. 15 (1), 1-6 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1080/14459795.2014.985693 Australian Institute for Gambling Research |
Alternative version: | 10.1080/14459795.2014.985693 |
Collection: | Articles publiés dans des revues avec comité de lecture |
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