Ill Effects Caused by Addiction to Online Gambling at Barangay Bahay Toro Quezon City
Vol.3, No.1C
Abstract
This study examined the ill effects caused by addiction to online gambling in Barangay Bahay Toro, Quezon City. Online gambling (or Internet gambling) is an online gambling conduct. Gambling addiction—pathological gambling, compulsive gambling, or gambling disorder—is an impulse-control disorder. The risk of mental health consequences has been highlighted (Holmes et al., 2020), and this also includes a risk of increased online behaviour, such as increased video gaming (King et al., 2020) or addiction to internet use (Sun et al., 2020). Similarly, the existing online gambling behaviour is an additional concern in society, particularly in the Philippines, where gambling is legal, and no Filipino laws state that it is illegal online gambling.
Using the descriptive method approach helps the researcher to gather comprehensive data for the study. Descriptive research design can be used to answer what, where, when, and how questions, but not why questions will also guide the researcher in investigating one or more variables. The researcher's objective is to address whether there is an argument for participating in online gambling.
The researchers used respondents' questionnaires to collect information from their perceptions and carefully constructed them to formulate exact details for the study. Also, to fully understand the respondents’ approach regarding their answers, the researcher used an unstructured kind of interview were this kind of interview use, especially when the interviewer throw a follow-up question to a responder when they are not satisfied with their answer.
The researcher utilizes twenty respondents, consisting of 10 barangay officials and ten purok vendors from Barangay Bahay Toro, Quezon City. Based on the demographic profile of the study from the two groups of respondents’ barangay officials and purok vendors, the majority of the respondents both came from the age bracket of 34-41 years old, male for barangay officials and female for purok vendors, both married and college level for barangay officials and high school level for purok vendors. In the assessment, the researcher found that the highest total weighted mean in work performance is communication and responsibility, financial difficulties are poor budgeting, and attitude is honesty. Lastly, regarding the factors affecting addiction, the study found that the influence of other gamers and aggressive promotional activities about online gambling is the highest, and the offered solution to address the addiction is to seek professional help.
As the results show, existing problems may grow, resulting in more conflict to your relationships, affecting your work, and leading to financial disaster. To avoid those negative scenarios, this paper will help the readers and future researchers in addressing these ill effects caused by addiction to online gambling, which may serve as a review/resource in the illegalization of the said problem.
