Table 3 Prevalence of gambling participation and pathological gambling in the past year (N = 926)
Total sample | Boys | Girls | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(n = 926) | (n = 471) | (n = 455) | ||||||
Gambling behavior | N | % | N | % | n | % | χ2 | Degree of freedom |
Non-gamblers | 495 | 53.5% | 243 | 26.2% | 252 | 27.2% | 0.81 | (1) |
Social gamblers | 392 | 42.3% | 200 | 21.6% | 192 | 20.7% | 0.05 | (1) |
At-risk gamblers | 31 | 3.3% | 21 | 2.3% | 10 | 1.1% | 3.84* | (1) |
Pathological gamblers | 8 | 0.9% | 7 | 0.8% | 1 | 0.1% | 4.43** | (1) |