Loneliness and online gambling-community participation of young social media users

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Highlights：

• Online communities are attractive for lonely individuals with psycho-social problems.

• Two studies examined online gambling-community participation.

• Loneliness can influence online gambling-community participation.

• Gambling problems and interest towards gambling predicted participation.

• Online gambling-communities involve risks to their users.

摘要

•Online communities are attractive for lonely individuals with psycho-social problems.•Two studies examined online gambling-community participation.•Loneliness can influence online gambling-community participation.•Gambling problems and interest towards gambling predicted participation.•Online gambling-communities involve risks to their users.

论文关键词：Gambling,Excessive gambling,Loneliness,Online communities,Internet,Vignette experiment

论文评审过程：Received 10 July 2018, Revised 16 January 2019, Accepted 18 January 2019, Available online 25 January 2019, Version of Record 6 February 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.01.023