Research Library

The following library of peer-reviewed research was used to develop “Talking with Children about Gambling.”

Aspy, C. B., Vesely, S. K., Oman, R. F., Rodine, S., Marshall, L., & McLeroy, K. (2007). Parental communication and youth sexual behaviour.  Journal of Adolescence, 30, 449-466.

Barnes, G. M., Welte, J. W., Hoffman, J. H., & Dintcheff, B. A. (1999). Gambling and alcohol use among youth: Influences of demographic, socialization, and individual factors. Addictive Behaviors, 24(6), 749-767.

Barnes, G. M., Welte, J. W., Hoffman, J. H., & Dintcheff, B. A. (2002). Effects of alcohol misuse on gambling patterns in youth. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 63(6), 767-775.

Barnes, G. M., Welte, J. W., Hoffman, J. H., & Dintcheff, B. A. (2005). Shared predictors of youthful gambling, substance use, and delinquency. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 19(2), 165-174.

Beck, K. H., Hartos, J. L., & Simons-Morton, B. G. (2002). Teen driving risk: the promise of parental influence and public policy.Health Education & Behavior, 29(1), 73-84.

Bernstein, J. D., Harper, M. A., Pardi, L. A., & Christopher, N. C. (2003). Parental knowledge and children's use of bicycle helmets.Clinical Pediatrics, 42, 673-677.

Biglan, A., Duncan, T. E., Ary, D. V., & Smolkowski, K. (1995). Peer and parental influences on adolescent tobacco use. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 18(4), 315-330.

Black, D. W., Monahan, P. O., Temkit, M. H., & Shaw, M. (2006). A family study of pathological gambling. Psychiatry Research, 141(3), 295-303.

Boone, T. L., & Lefkowitz, E. S. (2007). Mother-adolescent health communication:  Are all conversations created equally? Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 36, 1038-1047.

Borawski, E. A., Levers-Landis, C. E., Lovegreen, L. D., & Trapl, E. S. (2003). Parental monitoring, negotiated unsupervised time, and parental trust:  The role of perceived parenting practices in adolescent health risk behaviors. Journal of Adolescent Health, 33, 60-70.

Brody, G. H., Flor, D. L., Hollett-Wright, N., & McCoy, K. J. (1998). Children's development of alcohol use norms:  Contributions of parent and sibling norms, children's temperaments, and parent-child discussions. Journal of Family Psychology, 12(2), 209-219.

Burge, A. N., Pietrzak, R. H., & Petry, N. M. (2006). Pre/early adolescent onset of gambling and psychosocial problems in treatment-seeking pathological gamblers. Journal of Gambling Studies, 22(3), 263-274.

Burgess, V., Dziegielewski, S. F., & Green, C. E. (2005). Improving comfort about sex communication between parents and their adolescents:  Practice-based research within a teen sexuality group.Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, 5(4), 379-390.

Castrucci, B. C., & Gerlach, K. K. (2006). Understanding the association between authoritative parenting and adolescent smoking. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 10(2), 217-224.

Centers for Disease Control. (2000). Life's First Great Crossroad: Tweens Make Choices that Affect their Lives Forever (Centers for Disease Control). Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/YouthCampaign/research/PDF/LifesFirstCrossroads.pdf

Chambers, R. A., & Potenza, M. N. (2003). Neurodevelopment, impulsivity, and adolescent gambling. Journal of Gambling Studies, 19(1), 53-84.

Clawson, C. L., & Reese-Weber, M. (2003). The amount and timing of parent-adolescent sexual communication as predictors of late adolescent sexual risk-taking behaviors The Journal of Sex Research, 40(3), 256-265.

Cottrell, L., Li, X., Harris, C., D'Alessandri, D., Atkins, M., Richardson, B., et al. (2003). Parent and adolescent perceptions of parental monitoring and adolescent risk involvement. Parenting: Science and Practice, 3(3), 179-195.

Cremeens, J. L., Usdan, S. L., Brock-Martin, A., Martin, R. J., & Watkins, K. (2008). Parent-child communication to reduce heavy alcohol use among first-year college students. College Student Journal, 42(1), 152-163.

Cronce, J. M., Corbin, W. R., Steinberg, M. A., & Potenza, M. N. (2007). Self-perception of gambling problems among adolescents identified as at-risk or problem gamblers. Journal of Gambling Studies, 23(4), 363-375.

Crone, E. A., Bunge, S. A., Latenstein, H., & van der Molen, M. W. (2005). Characterization of children's decision making: Sensitivity to punishment frequency, not task complexity. Child Neuropsychology, 11(3), 245-263.

Crouter, A. C., Bumpus, M. F., Davis, K. D., & McHale, S. M. (2005). How do parents learn about adolescents' experiences? Implications for parental knowledge and adolescent risky behavior. Child Development, 76(4), 869-882.

Crouter, A. C., & Head, M. R. (2002). Parental monitoring and knowledge of children. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of Parenting: Being and Becoming a Parent (Vol. 3, pp. 461-483). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Darbyshire, P., Oster, C., & Carrig, H. (2001). Children of parent(s) who have a gambling problem: A review of the literature and commentary on research approaches. Health and Social Care in the Community, 9(4), 185-193.

Darbyshire, P., Oster, C., & Carrig, H. (2001). The experience of pervasive loss: children and young people living in a family where parental gambling is a problem. Journal of Gambling Studies, 17(1), 23-45.

Derevensky, J., L., Gupta, R., & Winters, K. C. (2003). Prevalence rates of youth gambling problems: Are the current rates inflated?Journal of Gambling Studies, 19(4), 405-425.

Desai, R. A., Maciejewski, P. K., Pantalon, M. V., & Potenza, M. N. (2005). Gender differences in adolescent gambling. Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, 17(4), 249-258.

Dickson, L. M., Derevensky, J. L., & Gupta, R. (2002). The prevention of gambling problems in youth: A conceptual framework.Journal of Gambling Studies, 18(2), 97-159.

Distefan, J. M., Gilpin, E. A., Choi, W. S., & Pierce, J. P. (1998). Parental influences predict adolescent smoking in the United States, 1989-1993. Journal of Adolescent Health, 22, 466-474.

Duhig, A. M., Maciejewski, P. K., Desai, R. A., Krishnan-Sarin, S., & Potenza, M. N. (2007). Characteristics of adolescent past-year gamblers and non-gamblers in relation to alcohol drinking. Addictive Behaviors, 32(1), 80-89.

Ellenbogen, S., Derevensky, J., & Gupta, R. (2007). Gender differences among adolescents with gambling-related problems.Journal of Gambling Studies, 23(2), 133-143.

Epstein, M., & Ward, L. M. (2008). “Always use protection":  Communication boys receive about sex from parents, peers, and the media. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 37, 113-126.

Ernst, M., Grant, S. J., London, E. D., Contoreggi, C. S., Kimes, A. S., & Spurgeon, L. (2003). Decision making in adolescents with behavior disorders and adults with substance abuse. American Journal of Psychiatry, 160(1), 33-40.

Fletcher, A. C., & Jefferies, B. C. (1999). Parental mediators of associations between perceived authoritative parenting and early adolescent substance use. Journal of Early Adolescence, 19, 465-487.

Fulkerson, J. A., Story, M., Mellin, A., Leffert, N., Neumark-Sztainer, D., & French, S. A. (2006). Family dinner meal frequency and adolescent development:  Relationships with developmental assets and high-risk behaviors. Journal of Adolescent Health, 39, 337-345.

Giacopassi, D., Stitt, B. G., & Nichols, M. (2006). Motives and methods of under-age casino gamblers. Journal of Gambling Studies, 22(4), 413-426.

Gupta, R., & Derevensky, J. L. (1997). Familial and social influences on juvenile and gambling behavior. Journal of Gambling Studies, 13, 179-192.

Hansen, M., & Rossow, I. (2008). Adolescent gambling and problem gambling: Does the total consumption model apply? Journal of Gambling Studies, 24(2), 135-149.

Hardoon, K., Derevensky, J. L., & Gupta, R. (2003). Empirical measures vs. perceived gambling severity among youth: Why adolescent problem gamblers fail to seek treatment. Addictive Behaviors, 28(5), 933-946.

Hartos, J. L., Eitel, P., Haynie, D. L., & Simons-Morton, B. G. (2000). Can I take the car? Relations among parenting practices and adolescent problem-driving practices. Journal of Adolescent Research, 15(3), 352-368.

Herbert, D. F., & Schiaffino, K. M. (2007). Adolescents' smoking behavior and attitudes:  The influence of mothers' smoking communication, behavior and attitudes. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 28, 103-114.

Hooper, C. J., Luciana, M., Conklin, H. M., & Yarger, R. S. (2004). Adolescents' performance on the Iowa Gambling Task: Implications for the development of decision making and ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Developmental Psychology, 40(6), 1148-1158.

Kaminer, V., & Petry, N. M. (1999). Gambling behavior in youths: Why we should be concerned. Psychiatric Services, 50(2), 167-168.

Kaminer, Y., Burleson, J. A., & Jadamec, A. (2002). Gambling behavior in adolescent substance abuse. Substance Abuse, 23(3), 191-198.

Kaminer, Y., & Haberek, R. (2004). Pathological gambling and substance use. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 43(11), 1326-1327.

Kelly, K. J., Comello, M. L. G., & Hunn, L. C. P. (2002). Parent-child communication, perceived sanctions against drug use, and youth drug involvement. ADOLESCENCE, 37(148), 775-787.

Kerr, M., & Stattin, H. (2000). What parents know, how they know it, and several forms of adolescent adjustment: Further supports for a reinterpretation of monitoring. Developmental Psychology, 36(3), 366-380.

Kessler, R. C., Hwang, I., LaBrie, R. A., Petukhova, M., Sampson, N. A., Winters, K. C., et al. (2008). DSM-IV pathological gambling in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Psychological Medicine, 1-10.

Korn, D. A., Murray, M., Morrison, M., Reynolds, J., & Skinner, H. A. (2006). Engaging youth about gambling using the internet: The YouthBet.net website. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 97(6), 448-453.

Kutner, L., & Olson, C. K. (2008). Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth about Violent Video Games. New York: Simon & Schuster.

LaBrie, R. A., & Shaffer, H. J. (2007). Gambling with adolescent health. Journal of Adolescent Health, 40(5), 387-389.

Ladouceur, R., Boisvert, J.-M., & Dumont, J. (1994). Cognitive-behavioral treatment for adolescent pathological gamblers. Behavior Modification, 18(2), 230-242.

Ladouceur, R., Boudreault, N., Jacques, C., & Vitaro, F. (1999). Pathological gambling and related problems among adolescents.Journal of Adolescent Substance Abuse, 8, 55-68.

Ladouceur, R., Ferland, F., Poulin, C., Vitaro, F., & Wiebe, J. (2005). Concordance between the SOGS-RA and the DSM-IV criteria for pathological gambling among youth. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 19(3), 271-276.

Ladouceur, R., Sylvain, C., Boutin, C., Lachance, S., Doucet, C., Leblond, J., et al. (2001). Cognitive treatment of pathological gambling. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 189(11), 774-780.

Ladouceur, R., Vitaro, F., & Cote, M.-A. (2001). Parents' attitudes, knowledge, and behavior toward youth gambling: A five-year follow-up. Journal of Gambling Studies, 17(2), 101-116.

Langhinrichsen-Rohling, J., Rohde, P., Seeley, J. R., & Rohling, M. L. (2004). Individual, family, and peer correlates of adolescent gambling. Journal of Gambling Studies, 20(1), 23-46.

Langhinrichsen-Rohling, J., Rohling, M. L., Rohde, P., & Seeley, J. R. (2004). The SOGS-RA vs. the MAGS-7: Prevalence estimates and classification congruence. Journal of Gambling Studies, 20(3), 259-281.

Lefkowitz, E. S., Sigman, M., & Kit-fong Au, T. (2000). Helping mothers discuss sexuality and AIDS with adolescents. Child Development, 71(5), 1383-1394.

Litt, I. F. (2003). Parents are "in" again. Journal of Adolescent Health, 33, 59.

Lussier, I., Derevensky, J. L., Gupta, R., Bergevin, T., & Ellenbogen, S. (2007). Youth gambling behaviors: an examination of the role of resilience. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 21(2), 165-173.

Lynch, W. J., Maciejewski, P. K., & Potenza, M. N. (2004). Psychiatric correlates of gambling in adolescents and young adults grouped by age at gambling onset. Archives of General Psychiatry, 61(11), 1116-1122.

Macaulay, A. P., Griffin, K. W., Gronewold, E., Williams, C., & Botvin, G. J. (2005). Parenting practices and adolescent drug-related knowledge, attitudes, norms, and behavior. Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 49(2), 67-83.

Magoon, M. E., & Ingersoll, G. M. (2006). Parental modeling, attachment, and supervision as moderators of adolescent gambling.Journal of Gambling Studies, 22(1), 1-22.

Martins, S. S., Storr, C. L., Ialongo, N. S., & Chilcoat, H. D. (2007). Mental health and gambling in urban female adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 40(5), 463-465.

Messerlian, C., Derevensky, J., & Gupta, R. (2005). Youth gambling problems: a public health perspective. Health Promotion International, 20(1), 69-79.

Miller-Day, M. (2002). Parent-adolescent communication about alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use Journal of Adolescent Research, 17(6), 604-616.

Miller-Day, M. (2008). Talking to youth about drugs:  What do late adolescents say about parental strategies? Family Relations, 57(1), 1-12.

Miller-Day, M., & Dodd, A. H. (2004). Toward a descriptive model of parent-offspring communication about alcohol and other drugs.Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 21, 69-91.

Neumark-Sztainer, D., Eisenberg, M. E., Fulkerson, J. A., Story, M., & Larson, N. I. (2008). Family meals and disordered eating in adolescents: longitudinal findings from project EAT. Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine, 162(1), 17-22.

Nower, L., Derevensky, J. L., & Gupta, R. (2004). The relationship of impulsivity, sensation seeking, coping, and substance use in youth gamblers. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 18(1), 49-55.

O'Byrne, K. K., Haddock, K., Poston, W. S. C., & Mid America Heart Institute. (2002). Parenting style and adolescent smoking. Journal of Adolescent Health, 30, 418-425.

Oei, T. P., & Raylu, N. (2004). Familial influence on offspring gambling: A cognitive mechanism for transmission of gambling behavior in families. Psychological Medicine, 34(7), 1279-1288.

Otten, R., Harakeh, Z., Vermulst, A. A., Van Den Eijnden, R. J. J. M., & Engels, R. C. M. E. (2007). Frequency and quality of parental communication as antecedents of adolescent smoking cognitions and smoking onset. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 21(1), 1-12.

Oxford, M. L., Harachi, T. W., Catalano, R. F., & Abbott, R. D. (2000). Preadolescent predictors of substance initiation: A test of both the direct and medicated effect of family social control factors on deviant peer associations and substance initiation. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 27(4), 599-616.

Padilla-Walker, L. M. (2006). “Peers I can monitor, it's media that really worries me!”: Parental cognitions as predictors of proactive parental strategy choice. Journal of Adolescent Research, 21(1), 56-82.

Petry, N. M., & Tawfik, Z. (2001). Comparison of problem-gambling and non-problem-gambling youths seeking treatment for marijuana abuse. Journal of the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, 40(11), 1324-1331.

Pietrzak, R. H., & Petry, N. M. (2006). Gambling severity and health functioning in adolescents recruited from urban primary care settings. Journal of Adolescent Health, 39(5), 764-766.

Proimos, J., DuRant, R. H., Pierce, J. D., & Goodman, E. (1998). Gambling and other risk behaviors among 8th- to 12th-grade students. Pediatrics, 102(2), e23.

Resnick, M. D., Bearman, P. S., Blum, R. W., Bauman, K. E., Harris, K. M., Jones, J., et al. (1997). Protecting adolescents from harm. Findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health.Journal of the American Medical Association, 278(10), 823-832.

Shaffer, H. J., & Hall, M. N. (2001). Updating and refining prevalence estimates of disordered gambling behaviour in the United States and Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 92(3), 168-172.

Shaffer, H. J., Hall, M. N., & Vander Bilt, J. (1997). Estimating the prevalence of disordered gambling behavior in the United States and Canada: A meta-analysis. Boston: President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Shaffer, H. J., Hall, M. N., & Vander Bilt, J. (1999). Estimating the prevalence of disordered gambling behavior in the United States and Canada: A research synthesis. American Journal of Public Health, 89(9), 1369-1376.

Shaffer, H. J., Hall, M. N., & Vander Bilt, J. (2000). Facing the Odds: The Mathematics of Gambling and Other Risks. Boston: The President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Shaffer, H. J., Hall, M. N., Vander Bilt, J., & George, E. (Eds.). (2003). Futures at Stake: Youth, Gambling and Society. Reno: University of Nevada Press.

Shaffer, H. J., & Korn, D. A. (2002). Gambling and related mental disorders: A public health analysis. Annual Review of Public Health, 23, 171-212.

Shaffer, H. J., LaBrie, R. A., LaPlante, D. A., Nelson, S. E., & Stanton, M. V. (2004). The road less travelled: moving from distribution to determinants in the study of gambling epidemiology.Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 49(8), 504-516.

Shaw, M. C., Forbush, K. T., Schlinder, J., Rosenman, E., & Black, D. W. (2007). The effect of pathological gambling on families, marriages, and children. CNS Spectrums, 12(8), 615-622.

Slutske, W. S., Jackson, K. M., & Sher, K. J. (2003). The natural history of problem gambling from age 18 to 29. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112(2), 263-274.

Stanton, B., Cole, M., Galbraith, J., Li, X., Pendleton, S., Cottrel, L., et al. (2004). Randomized trial of a parent intervention: Parents can make a difference in long-term adolescent risk behaviors, perception, and knowledge. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 158, 947-955.

Steinberg, L. (2004). Risk taking in adolescence: What changes, and why? Annals of the New York Acdemy of Sciences, 1021, 51-58.

Steinberg, L., Fletcher, A. C., & Darling, N. (1994). Parental monitoring and peer influences on adolescent substance use.Pediatrics, 93(6), 1060-1064.

Stinchfield, R. (2001). A comparison of gambling by Minnesota public school students in 1992, 1995, and 1998. Journal of Gambling Studies, 17(4), 273-296.

Turrisi, R., Wiersma, K. A., & Hughes, K. K. (2000). Binge-drinking-related consequences in college students:  Role of drinking beliefs and mother-teen communications. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 14(4), 342-355.

Vachon, J., Vitaro, F., Wanner, B., & Tremblay, R. E. (2004). Adolescent gambling: Relationships with parent gambling and parenting practices. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 18(4), 398-401.

van Hamel, A., Derevensky, J. L., Takane, Y., Dickson, L., & Gupta, R. (2007). Adolescent gambling and coping within a generalized high-risk behavior framework. Journal of Gambling Studies, 23(4), 377-393.

Vitaro, F., Brendgen, M., Ladouceur, R., & Tremblay, R. E. (2001). Gambling, delinquency, and drug use during adolescence: Mutual influences and common risk factors. Journal of Gambling Studies, 17(3), 171-190.

Wanner, B., Vitaro, F., Ladouceur, R., Brendgen, M., & Tremblay, R. E. (2006). Joint trajectories of gambling, alcohol and marijuana use during adolescence: A person- and variable-centered developmental approach. Addictive Behaviors, 31(4), 566-580.

Welte, J. W., Barnes, G. M., Tidwell, M.-C. O., & Hoffman, J. H. (2008). The prevalence of problem gambling among U.S. adolescents and young adults: Results from a national survey.Journal of Gambling Studies, 24(2), 119-133.

Welte, J. W., Barnes, G. M., Wieczorek, W. F., Tidwell, M.-C. O., & Parker, J. C. (2002). Gambling participation in the U.S.–results from a national survey. Journal of Gambling Studies, 18(4), 313-337.

Welte, J. W., Barnes, G. M., Wieczorek, W. F., Tidwell, M.-C. O., & Parker, J. C. (2004). Risk factors for pathological gambling. Addictive Behaviors, 29(2), 323-335.

Wickwire, E. M., Whelan, J. P., Meyers, A. W., & Murray, D. M. (2007). Environmental correlates of gambling behavior in urban adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 35(2), 179-190.

Winters, K. C. (2008). Adolescent brain development and drug abuse. Philadelphia: Treatment Research Institute.

Winters, K. C., Stinchfield, R. D., Botzet, A., & Anderson, N. (2002). A prospective study of youth gambling behaviors. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 16(1), 3-9.

Winters, K. C., Stinchfield, R. D., Botzet, A., & Slutske, W. S. (2005). Pathways of youth gambling problem severity Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 19(1), 104-107.

Yang, H., Stanton, B., Cottrell, L., Kaljee, L., Galbraith, J., Li, X., et al. (2006). Parental awareness of adolescent risk involvement:  Implications of overestimates and underestimates. Journal of Adolescent Health, 39, 353-361.