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01-09-2014 | Original Paper

Peer Pressure and Thai Amateur Golfers’ Gambling on Their Games: The Mediating Effect of Golf Self-Efficacy

Authors: Vanchai Ariyabuddhiphongs, Chomnad Promsakha Na Sakolnakorn

Published in: Journal of Gambling Studies | Issue 3/2014

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Our study hypothesizes that Thai amateur golfers gamble on their game because of peer pressure and their golf self-efficacy. To support our hypothesis, we conducted a study to examine the mediating effect of golf self-efficacy on the peer pressure–golf gambling relationship among 387 amateur golfers in Thailand. Peer pressure was operationally defined as fellow players’ influence on the individual golfer to gamble; golf self-efficacy as the judgment of the golfer’s skills to play golf; and golf gambling as the frequency and amounts of gambling. Regression analysis with bootstrapping was used to test the mediation effect of golf self-efficacy on the peer pressure–golf gambling relationship. The results support our hypothesis; peer pressure predicted golf gambling, and the indirect effect of peer pressure to golf gambling through the mediation of golf self-efficacy was significant. The results support the influence of peer pressure on gambling, and the social cognitive theory reciprocal relationship model.

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Title: Peer Pressure and Thai Amateur Golfers’ Gambling on Their Games: The Mediating Effect of Golf Self-Efficacy
Authors: Vanchai Ariyabuddhiphongs
Chomnad Promsakha Na Sakolnakorn
Publication date: 01-09-2014
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Gambling Studies / Issue 3/2014
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3602
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-013-9372-y

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