Abstract
ABSTRACTThis study examined gambling activity and risk for gambling problems among ethnic Chinese- and Vietnamese- American college students. The Canadian Adolescent Gambling Inventory (CAGI) was administered to a stratified sample of 653 undergraduates at a public university in the northeastern United States. This sample included racial-ethnic subsamples large enough to compare gambling behavior among Chinese, Vietnamese, Other Asian, Black, Latino, and white students. Logistic regression analysis indicated that the odds of having gambled in the past three months were lower than whites only for Other Asians [odd’s ratio(OR) = .320, p < .05] and Latinos [OR = .477, p < .05] and not for Chinese, Vietnamese, or Blacks. Among students who gambled in the last three months, the odds of meeting criteria for high severity risk of problem gambling were higher for the Chinese [OR = 5.381, p < .05], Latinos [OR = 6.520, p < .05], and Blacks [OR = 6.540, p < .05] than for whites. The odds of meeting criteria for some degree of risk were higher for Vietnamese than white students [OR = 2.736, p < .05]. These findings suggest the need for future study of underlying risk factors for students of minority racial-ethnicity.
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