title: Student-Athletes and Gambling: An Analysis of Attitudes Towards Risk-Taking.
abstract: Gambling scandals at Arizona State University, Boston College, and Northwestern University have made gambling prevention a point of emphasis in the NCAA and throughout colleges and universities across the nation. Despite this emphasis, there is minimal research at any level regarding gambling and student-athletes. This research examines attitudinal differences towards risk-taking among student-athletes who gamble on college sports and those who indicate no such gambling activity. Our findings indicate that student-athletes who gambled were more likely to have attitudes supportive of risk taking behavior than their student-athlete peers who did not gamble.
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-0071; mcross@princeton.edu
authors.forename: Michael E.
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Cross
authors.forename: Jay
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Basten
authors.forename: Erin Marie
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Hendrick
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kristofic
authors.forename: Evan J.
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Schaffer