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The unintended normalization of gambling: family identity influences on the adoption of harmful consumption practices
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posted on 2017-12-01, 00:00 authored by K Westberg, M B Beverland, Samantha ThomasSamantha ThomasAlthough gambling has been legitimized as a form of leisure, this consumption activity can have individual and social costs. Policy approaches often focus on problem gambling as a discrete activity undertaken by an individual. Drawing on social practice theory and family identity research, we take an alternative approach, identifying how exposure to gambling can occur in emergent ways that can have an unintended but lasting effect. Based on 40 depth interviews, we identify how the pursuit of four family identity goals (membership and bonding, coming-of-age, emotional sustenance, and communing) plays a role in the normalization of gambling in childhood. We then explore how these goals and family gambling practices may contribute to gambling behaviour longer term. Finally, we examine the interplay between family identity goals at the meso-level, and wider macro-level socio-cultural institutions. Policy and social marketing initiatives that acknowledge the influence of identity-related gambling behaviour are recommended.
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Journal of macromarketingVolume
37Issue
4Pagination
426 - 443Publisher
SageLocation
London, Eng.Publisher DOI
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0276-1467eISSN
1552-6534Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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