The Developmental Transitions in Youth and Emerging Adulthood study was developed to focus on the nature of gambling and problem gambling in adolescence, with the intention to extend the study to examine developmental transitions in emerging adulthood. The primary purpose of this project was to collect data on the gambling and risk-taking behaviors of adolescents, to examine their salience, stability, and concomitant behavioral, attitudinal and familial factors associated with problem gambling.
The baseline sample of 971 secondary students, originally in grades 9 – 12, measured predictors of gambling, problem gambling and other risk behaviors. The follow-up study conducted two years after baseline examined concomitant information as well as predictors of gambling and risk behaviors aschanges over time were tracked. Collecting two-year follow-up data allowed the researchers to examine changes in behaviors over time as well as assess performance of the Canadian Adolescent Gambling Inventory.
