자기통제력 수준에 따른 비행청소년의 온라인 도박 2차 범죄의 경로

초록

With easier access to online gambling, gambling problems among adolescents have become increasingly serious. Gambling is problematic in itself, but it becomes even more concerning when it leads to gambling-related crime, potentially reinforcing a deviant lifestyle. Accordingly, this study aims to examine the pathways to gambling-related crime among juvenile delinquents, based on General Strain Theory (GST). Specifically, it investigates whether financial strain caused by online gambling leads to gambling-related crime through the mediating role of negative affect. Furthermore, the study tests whether this pathway is moderated by the level of self-control among juvenile delinquents by analyzing moderated mediation effects. This study utilized survey data collected in 2022 from juvenile delinquents who were under probation. From the total respondents, 113 individuals who had experience with online gambling were selected for analysis. Using SPSS PROCESS macro, a moderated mediation analysis was conducted to test the research model. The results showed that financial strain had a significant direct effect on gambling-related crime; however, its indirect effect via negative affect was not statistically significant, indicating no mediating effect. In contrast, the moderated mediation effect of self-control was significant. The indirect effect through negative affect was significant only among those with low levels of self-control. This suggests that juvenile delinquents with lower self-control are more likely to respond to financial strain with maladaptive emotional reactions, leading to deviant behaviors such as gambling-related crime. This study is meaningful in that it empirically verified the pathway from financial strain to gambling-related crime in the context of online gambling, and identified self-control as a key moderating variable in this process. Based on the findings, policy recommendations were proposed to prevent the vicious cycle of gambling among juvenile delinquents.

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