Abstract
Previous studies have found that online gambling operates in riskier betting conditions than offline gambling and attracts players with more demographic risk factors for gambling disorders. This study reveals that online lottery/casino players, compared to their offline counterparts, also have more psychographic risk factors such as a higher level of trust in the Internet, which could increase susceptibility to unscrupulous manipulation. By type of gambling, online casino players, as opposed to online lottery players, have a stronger tendency to thriftlessness and a lower degree of sociability, two psychographics that, in interaction with the riskier online betting conditions, could make online casino players particularly vulnerable. These findings suggest that governments’ policy/educational initiatives to prevent gambling disorders should be adapted to the specific levels of risk associated with each type of online gambling and their users’ profiles.
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