Gambling and financial management
An in-depth exploration of the relationship between money and gambling behaviour
Published: July 2013
To understand the relationship between money, debt and/or financial hardship and gambling and the different pathways into gambling-related debt and/or financial hardship.
The study has generated a number of publications, which you can read by using the pink buttons below.
- Although problem gamblers were more likely than non-problem gamblers to have forms of financial debt, just under two-thirds of problem gamblers (62%) reported having no debt.
- Our analysis identified four kinds of gamblers: ‘controlled gamblers’, ‘uncontrolled gamblers’, ‘uncontrolled spenders’ and ‘chaotic spenders’.
- We propose an ecological model which captures the different factors that influenced people's financial decisions, including cognitive factors, control and compulsion, normative spending, resource and financial management, and the credit environment.
- 45 in-depth qualitative interviews with a range of participants; varying in relation to how much debt they report and to what extent they report the problem of their gambling.
- Quantitative analysis of existing data sets; as a tool to feed into the interviews and for further exploration of key themes that emerge throughout the project.
Read the full report
Debt & problem gambling briefing
Managing money, debt & gambling briefing
Views & experiences of gambling support services briefing
The relationship between gambling, debt & financial management journal article