Matthew Rockloff
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 199168 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Matthew Rockloff |
| NOMBRES | Matthew |
| APELLIDO | Rockloff |
| FIRMA | ROCKLOFF M |
| AFILIACIONES | Central Queensland University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0080-2690 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Journeys Towards Harm Among Young Adult Sports Bettors
Sports betting increases the risk of gambling harm in young people, but little is known about their pathways into harmful betting and dynamic influences over time. This study explored journeys towards gambling harm among young Australian sports bettors and key sources of influence on their experiences, from childhood to early adulthood. Fifty people aged 18–25 years reporting moderate or high harm from sports betting on the Gambling Harm Scale we…
The high cost of direct marketing from wagering operators, tipsters and affiliates
Sure they Gamble – But At Least They’re Not Being Bullied! A Survey of Parental Perspectives of Adolescent Gambling
There is almost no research on adolescent gambling from the perspective of parents, despite their important role in preventing adolescent engagement in potentially risky and harmful activities. This study used a quantitative online survey of 1,185 parents (69% mothers) of adolescents (aged 12 to 17 years) to examine parental attitudes and knowledge of adolescent gambling and adolescent exposure to parental gambling. Most parents disapproved of ad…
From ‘Quirky and Cool’ to ‘Addicted’
Young adults bear the greatest burden of harm from sports betting. This study explored 1) the lived experiences of sports betting harm when people enter adulthood, 2) barriers and catalysts to change, and 3) change strategies used. Interviews with 50 people aged 18–25 who reported sports betting harm were analysed using thematic analysis. Findings highlight the multidimensional nature of harm across financial, emotional, vocational, relationship …
Towards more reliable gambling cost estimates, a population-based study with register-linkage
Methods commonly used in gambling cost studies yield higher estimates of gambling costs when arbitrary causality adjustment methods are used. Bayes theorem allows leveraging data on temporal patterns of gambling problems to estimate the plausible proportion where gambling is the precipitating factor for the experienced harm, rather than the other way around. Additionally, costs could be presented as Int$ per adult using the PPP exchange rate to f…
Harm-to-self from gambling
Feature preferences of sports betting platforms
Illusions of control
The Covid-19 lockdown experience suggests that restricting the supply of gambling can reduce gambling problems
Revising the core knowledge confusions scale
The Core Knowledge Confusions scale (CKC) was designed to predict paranormal and spiritual beliefs, alternative health beliefs and the degree to which people assign meaning to events. It measures the likelihood of individuals' tendency to accept ontologically confused content as literally true and has been used to investigate beliefs such as the paranormal. However, the psychometric properties of the CKC have not been tested, limiting the scale’s…
‘Getting addicted to it and losing a lot of money… it’s just like a hole.’ A grounded theory model of how social determinants shape adolescents’ choices to not gamble
Choices to not gamble emanated from multiple layers of influence, implying that multi-layered interventions, aligned with a public health response, are needed to deter underage gambling. At the environmental level, better age-gating for monetary and simulated gambling, countering cultural pressures, and less exposure to promotional gambling messages, may assist young people to resist these influences. Interventions that support parents to provide…
The ‘Wild West’ of Wagering Affiliate Marketing and Implications for Gambling Harm
Wagering affiliate marketing is a performance-based system where online wagering operators pay third parties (affiliates) to recruit and engage customers for them. Despite widespread use, it has attracted limited research attention in Australia and elsewhere. This exploratory Australian study aimed to capture key informant perspectives on (1) the key features of wagering affiliate marketing and (2) how it may increase the risk of gambling harm. I…
Self-Regulatory Strategies Reduce Gambling Spend and Harm in a Randomised Controlled Trial of Electronic Gaming Machine Players
Research provides insights into the self-regulatory strategies (SRSs) gamblers use, but evidence supporting their efficacy is weak. Study 1 aimed to identify a set of SRSs that best predict less harmful gambling amongst electronic gaming machine (EGM) players who are most vulnerable to EGM-related harm. Study 2 aimed to test their efficacy as a brief intervention in a randomised controlled trial. Study 1 surveyed 2032 EGM players and compared SRS…
Gambling-Related Harm to Affected Others
Quantitative self-report measures for gambling-related harm experienced by gamblers themselves are established in the literature, whereas similar measures of gambling-related harm to affected others (AOs, a.k.a. concerned significant others) are given less attention. The impact of gambling-related harm varies significantly among different relationship types, such as partners, family members, and friends. Moreover, while many studies concentrate p…
Does the lived experience of gambling accord with quantitative self-report scores of gambling-related harm
A broad quantitative literature has explored the extent and distribution of gambling-related harm. However, any quantitative measure involves a number of statistical decisions around item selection and weighting that may affect its ability to provide an accurate summary of a gambler’s lived experience. This may especially be an issue with a condition as varied and multifaceted as gambling-related harm. The present research therefore used qualitat…
Let’s Be Honest
The importance of safeguarding young people from harmful gambling is widely acknowledged, but limited research has sought adolescents’ perspectives on strategies to provide this protection. The current study addresses this gap in understanding. Eighty-nine Australians aged 12–17 years, classed as either at-risk/problem gamblers, non-problem gamblers or non-gamblers, participated in qualitative interview and/or online community conditions. Themes …
Influences on gambling during youth
Gambling patterns among young people are diverse, yet factors that affect changes in their gambling behaviour as they mature remain poorly understood. This study explores gambling trajectories and related sources of influence during childhood, early adolescence and later adolescence, and amongst adolescents at different levels of gambling risk. Qualitative interviews and online communities with 89 Australians aged 12–17 years explored their gambl…
Order of first-play in simulated versus monetary gambling
Unambiguous evidence that over half of gambling problems in Australia are caused by electronic gambling machines
How gambling harms others
Electronic gaming machine accessibility and gambling problems
Gambling advertising on Twitter before, during and after the initial Australian Covid-19 lockdown
Situational features of smartphone betting are linked to sports betting harm
‘It Doesn’t Give Off the Gambling Vibes … It Just Feels Like a Part of the Game’
This study explores the lived experience of simulated gambling as young people grow up. Qualitative research with 89 Australians aged 12–17 years explored their chronological experiences of simulated gambling and monetary gambling. Reflexive thematic narrative analysis identified common and contrasting themes amongst at-risk/problem gambling, non-problem gambling, and non-gambling participants. As young people grow up, they engage in simulated ga…
Chances are you’re about to lose’
Current industry-developed safer gambling messages such as 'Take time to think' and 'Gamble responsibly' have been criticized as ineffective slogans. As a result, Australia has recently introduced seven independently-developed safer gambling messages. The UK Government intends to introduce independently-developed messages from 2024 onwards, and this measure could be similarly appropriate for the US states where sports betting has been legalized a…
Identifying risky Internet use
Experiencing negative outcomes online is increasingly common, with more people active online and the continued presence of aggressive online behaviours. This study sought to uncover the underlying factor structure of negative online consequences. It investigated how experiencing negative outcomes is associated with engaging in specific online activities. Australian adult Internet users ( N = 1773, mean age = 42.5 years, 54.8% female) completed an…
Simulating the Social Context of Human Choice
Factor Analysis of Barriers to Treatment for Problem Gambling
The Four Es of Problem Gambling
An Experiment on the Social Facilitation of Gambling Behavior
The Four Es 1-Year Later
Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Something
Never Smile at a Crocodile
Associations between occupational indicators and total, work-based and leisure-time sitting
Behaviour change interventions are needed to reduce sitting time as a means to prevent chronic disease. Workplace initiatives to reduce sitting time may be particularly important among individuals employed in white-collar and physical undemanding occupations, although other intervention strategies targeting leisure-time sitting are also required
Going against the Herd
By far the most common strategy used in the attempt to modify negative attitudes toward vaccination is to appeal to evidence-based reasoning. We argue, however, that focusing on science comprehension is inconsistent with one of the key facts of cognitive psychology: Humans are biased information processors and often engage in motivated reasoning. On this basis, we hypothesised that negative attitudes can be explained primarily by factors unrelate…
Understanding gambling related harm
Fatigue in Emergency Services Operations
Under controlled laboratory conditions, neurobehavioral assays such as the Psychomotor Vigilance Task (PVT) are sensitive to increasing levels of fatigue, and in general, tend to correlate with subjective ratings. However, laboratory studies specifically curtail physical activity, potentially limiting the applicability of such findings to field settings that involve physical work. In addition, laboratory studies typically involve healthy young ma…
A tale of two countries
Identifying risky Internet use
Experiencing negative outcomes online is increasingly common, with more people active online and the continued presence of aggressive online behaviours. This study sought to uncover the underlying factor structure of negative online consequences. It investigated how experiencing negative outcomes is associated with engaging in specific online activities. Australian adult Internet users ( N = 1773, mean age = 42.5 years, 54.8% female) completed an…
An SEM Algorithm for Scale Reduction Incorporating Evaluation of Multiple Psychometric Criteria
Development and refinement of self-report measures generally involves selecting a subset of indicators from a larger set. Despite the importance of this task, methods applied to accomplish this are often idiosyncratic and ad hoc, or based on incomplete statistical criteria. We describe a structural equation modeling (SEM)-based technique, based on the standardized residual variance-covariance matrix, which subsumes multiple traditional psychometr…
The prevention paradox applies to some but not all gambling harms
Training gamblers to re-think their gambling choices
Skin gambling predicts problematic gambling amongst adolescents when controlling for monetary gambling
The effect of gambling problems on the subjective wellbeing of gamblers’ family and friends
Are esports bettors a new generation of harmed gamblers? A comparison with sports bettors on gambling involvement, problems, and harm
The identification of Australian low-risk gambling limits
Young people who purchase loot boxes are more likely to have gambling problems
Item Version of the Short Gambling Harm Screen (SGHS-18)
The SGHS-18 comprehensively measures the domains of gambling harm, while demonstrating desirable properties of internal consistency, and criterion and convergent validity
Gambling Problems Are Associated with Alcohol Misuse and Insomnia
Gambling has significant costs to the community, with a health burden similar in scale to major depression. To reduce its impact, it is necessary to understand factors that may exacerbate harm from gambling. The gambling environment of late-night licensed venues and 24/7 online gambling has the potential to negatively impact sleep and increase alcohol consumption. This study explored gambling, alcohol, and sleep problems to understand whether the…
Legacy gambling harms
Validating the short gambling harm screen against external benchmarks
Psychology (51 obras) · Gambling Behavior and Treatments (50 obras) · Social Psychology (42 obras) · Harm (28 obras) · Psychiatry (24 obras) · Medicine (23 obras) · Clinical Psychology (18 obras) · Public health (16 obras) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (16 obras) · Social Psychology (14 obras)