Development and Validation of a Chinese Translation of Gambling Expectance Scale through Smallest Space Analysis
- DOI
- 10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.238How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- gambling expectancy; gambling intention; the smallest space analysis; non-gambler
- Abstract
A sample of 312 individuals (residents and tourists) in Macao was investigated by completing a survey assessing their gambling expectancy and the gambling intention. The Smallest Space Analysis (SSA) was adopted as the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to validate the Chinese version of gambling expectancy scale’s sub-dimensions generated by the exploratory factor analysis (EFA). 10 items to judge people’s gambling intention were adopted as validate variables to investigate their associations with the gambling expectancy. In the configuration produced by the Gambling Expectancy Questionnaire (GEQ), results indicated that the 3-dimension solution of the scale was valid for the Chinese sample. The SSA results revealed that all the gambling intention variables were located in the same region between potential gains and self or parents’ evaluation, indicating that people believe gambling could bring the potential gains and higher self/evaluation were more likely to commit gambling. Compared with the gamblers, non-gamblers scored higher on punishment dimension, but lower than potential gain dimension. Chinese gamblers were found gambling for reach better social status, which in line with Chinese cultural background.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Wen Xue AU - Zhonglu Zeng AU - Zuyun Liu PY - 2018/07 DA - 2018/07 TI - Development and Validation of a Chinese Translation of Gambling Expectance Scale through Smallest Space Analysis BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1057 EP - 1060 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.238 DO - 10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.238 ID - Xue2018/07 ER -