Peer and Parental Social Norms as Determinants of Gambling Initiation: A Prospective Study.

Purpose: Despite the potential consequences of gambling during adolescence, the factors involved in the initiation of this behavior are relatively understudied. Using a longitudinal design, the present study analyzed the contribution of parental and peer norms to adolescent gambling initiation.

Methods: A sample of 440 adolescent non-gamblers (50.

[Covid-19: factors associated with emotional distress and psychological morbidity in spanish population.].

Objective: The socio-health emergency caused by COVID-19 may have a significant psychological impact on the population. For this reason, it is necessary to identify especially vulnerable social groups and protective factors that may reduce this impact, which was the objective of this study.

Methods: Using snowball sampling approach, 1,596 people residing in Spain during the lockdown answered an online questionnaire that included information on sociodemographic variables, symptoms, and contact with the disease, risk perception, precautionary measures to prevent infection and coping strategies during lockdown.

Behavioral Intention to Gamble Among Adolescents: Differences Between Gamblers and Non-gamblers-Prevention Recommendations.

Gambling is a rapidly growing phenomenon among adolescents associated with negative psychosocial effects. To prevent this public health problem, it is necessary to identify the factors that cause and maintain adolescent gambling. Based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), structural equation models were used in a sample of 1174 adolescents (aged 12-20 years) to study the effect of attitudes, subjective norms and self-efficacy on gambling intention in adolescent gamblers (n = 432) and non-gamblers (n = 742).

[Predictors of cognitive impairment in population over 64 years institutionalized and non-institutionalized].

Aim: Describe the factors which can be associated with cognitive impairment in institutionalized and non-institutionalized elderly.

Method: Cross-sectional study of 200 people aged over 64 in Huelva (Spain) in 2014. Of these, 100 people were institutionalized in a residential facility and 100 were not.

Service climate as a mediator of organizational empowerment in customer-service employees.

The aim of this study is to examine the mediating role of the service climate between organizational empowerment (i.e., dynamic structural framework, control of workplace decisions, fluidity in information sharing) and service quality (functional and relational).