ABSTRACT
Over the past 20 years, gambling availability has increased dramatically and the level of
commercial global growth is qualitatively different from what has been seen in the past.
The omnipresence of contemporary gambling is being influenced by technology and the
most recent advancement is for gamblers to access games via the Internet. There has been
a dearth of empirical studies into the sequelae of Internet gambling despite extant literature
showing that online gamblers are more likely to report disordered gambling behaviour
when compared to gamblers that have never placed a wager on the Internet (Griffiths &
Barnes, 2008; Griffiths, Wardle, Orford, Sproston, & Erens, 2009; Ladd & Petry, 2002;
Olason et al., 2011; Petry, 2006; Petry & Weinstock, 2007; Potenza et al., 2011; Wood &
Williams, 2009).
