title: Lottery gambling: a review.
abstract: This paper presents an exhaustive review of the literature on lottery gambling involving numbers games, lotto, and scratch cards. Results provide tentative answers to the question why people buy lotteries, and support the theory of judgment under uncertainty, cognitive theory of gambling, and theory of demand for gambles. Results also indicate some potential addictiveness of this form of gambling. Youths buy different forms of lotteries and the best predictor of their lottery purchases is their parents' lottery participation. Contrary to the myth that a big lottery win will ruin the winners' lives, lottery winners tend to be well-adjusted and their life quality seems to improve. Suggestions for future research are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School, Bangkok University, Rama 4 Road, Klongtoey, Bangkok 10110, Thailand. vanchai.a@bu.ac.th
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ariyabuddhiphongs
mesh_terms: D017668:Age of Onset; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000523:psychology*; D003463:Cues; D005715:Gambling / Q000523:psychology*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D009042:Motivation; D010988:Play and Playthings / Q000523:psychology; D011336:Probability; D012201:Reward; D012938:Social Perception; D055815:Young Adult