Document is current

Article History

Accepted: 20 December 2022

First Online: 17 January 2023

Declarations

:

: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval for the study was granted by the last author’s university ethics committee. Informed consent was not required for the present study because participants had already agreed to the platform’s terms of service, which included the use of their data for research purposes. By using the platform, participants gave their implicit consent to participate in the study.

: The last author’s university received funding from <i>Norsk Tipping </i>(the gambling operator owned by the Norwegian Government) for this work. The first and second authors were sub-contracted by Nottingham Trent University. The third and fourth authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose. The last author has received funding for a number of research projects in the area of gambling education for young people, social responsibility in gambling and gambling treatment from Gamble Aware (formerly the Responsibility in Gambling Trust), a charitable body which funds its research program based on donations from the gambling industry. The second and last authors undertake consultancy for various gambling companies in the area of social responsibility in gambling.