Effects of Illegal Small Lottery to the Lives of Those Who Bet

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Filipinos are fond of betting any type of game of chances. The lottery is one of it, where the government is legalizing it through the PCSO. A lottery is a form of gambling where it needs to draw numbers and prizes. This study explores the negative effect of betting illegal small lottery.

METHODS

The quasi-experimental research design was used. It involved two hundred thirty-two respondents who were identified bets the small illegal lottery in Luna Placer Masbate. The respondents were given a survey questionnaire to collect the data needed to get the reason for those people who bet the lottery and to know the negative effect and the positive effect of the lottery. An interview questionnaire also conducted to validate responses.

RESULTS

The study revealed the negative effects of betting illegal small lottery first, losing money. Second is an addiction to the extent that even the last centavo in their pocket will be saved for betting. The third is to borrow money to bet lotto. Fourth experience poverty that they can't anymore buy their daily needs. The fifth is they can't give money to their children and family because they prioritize to bet. And the last is they sell the things that are important to them in order to have money for betting.

DISCUSSIONS

There must be a strict prohibition of the small illegal lottery for the people not to be addicted to it. People in the community must be oriented on the negative effect to them and to their family of betting. Programs must be created within the community to divert peoples' attention and make them productive in the community.