ali sajedi sabegh; Seyed Emad Hosseini; Farshad Emami
Abstract
The increasing spread of betting on the Internet and the creation of individual and social problems are causing concern for people involved in this factor. Among these, one of the important aspects in the causes of people's tendency to online betting aspects seems to be the psychological needs of people. ...
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The increasing spread of betting on the Internet and the creation of individual and social problems are causing concern for people involved in this factor. Among these, one of the important aspects in the causes of people's tendency to online betting aspects seems to be the psychological needs of people. In the present study, the effect of psychological needs of individuals in the tendency to online betting has been investigated. In this research, which is applied in terms of type, correlation and purpose. Interview with open coding method in qualitative method and questionnaire in quantitative method were used. The statistical population was 12 elites, specialists and experts in the field of social sciences and sports who were snowballed by the method and in the quantitative method there were 367 people participating in betting, of which 188 were using formula tools. The Cochrane arrived. And was examined by random method. In this study, a researcher-made questionnaire (sports betting) was used for evaluations and content and face validity were confirmed by 12 elites, and its reliability was 0.83 using Cronbach's alpha test. SPSS software was used for data analysis. The results showed that due to the impact of environment and society with a correlation of 0.82 and psychological needs of the study, a correlation of 0.58 were among the most important causes of the disease.