Purpose: This study examined the fitness of a path model for the relationship among personal characteristic or cognitive factor, personal emotional factor, family conflict factor, gambling risk factor, self-regulation strategy and social adaptation st...
Purpose: This study examined the fitness of a path model for the relationship among personal characteristic or cognitive factor, personal emotional factor, family conflict factor, gambling risk factor, self-regulation strategy and social adaptation strategy in college students. Methods: The subjects were 598 college students selected from seven universities in South Korea. The data were analyzed by PASW 19.0 and AMOS 19.0 programs. Results: Self-regulation strategy and social adaptation strategy directly affected college students’ gambling behavior, while personal characteristic or cognitive factor, personal emotional factor, family conflict factor and gambling risk factor affected it indirectly. This study also showed that the modified path model is efficient and appropriate to analyze college students’ gambling behavior. Conclusion: These results indicate that college students’ gambling behavior can be decreased by reducing personal characteristic or cognitive factor, personal emotional factor, family conflict factor and gambling risk factor, and by increasing self-regulation strategy and social adaptation strategy. Thus, in order to control college students’ gambling behavior, we would need to design an intervention program which focuses on reducing personal characteristic or cognitive factor, personal emotional factor, family conflict factor and gambling risk factor, and on reinforcing self-regulation strategy and social adaptation strategy.