Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to determine who was gambling, what were the most common venues used to gamble, and how much money was being gambled on a Division I college campus located in the Midwest. Today, betting takes place on 99.9 percent of the college campuses in the country (Blaudschun, 2000). This would lead one to believe that there would be a high percentage of students gambling at this university. Participants consisted of 217 males and 319 females, ranging in rank from freshman to graduate. Participants were asked to complete a survey consisting of general questions about their gambling history. Four hundred fifty of the 536 participants reported to have gambled at some point in their life. The majority of the participants had purchased lottery tickets and some of the students bet on sports over the Internet. The majority of the participants who had gambled reported that they wagered less than $10.00 per bet on average. Based on these findings, a majority (84%) of the participants had gambled but played relatively low risk activities for small amounts of money. It is suggested that future researchers attempt to examine the attitude of the participants towards gambling.