Abstract:
The research ofbehavior and attitude towards football gambling of the university student in the
eastern region, which the objectivesare to study the behavior and attitude towards football gambling of the
university student in the eastern region. To study and compare attitudes towards gambling football of the
university student in the eastern region, according to personal factors. And to study the suggestions for
adjusting measures for solving football gambling problems of students in university, as a result of analysis from
studying from the Bachelor degree students who studying in a university in the eastern region. By being a
student who has experience in gambling football in the amount of 400 people.
Sampling groups that responded to the questionnaire, there is a reason for deciding to play football
because like to win. For the most fun and exciting, 46.0 percent have football betting only. The competition of
the football club/season is the most favorite, accounting for 53.0 percent of the cost of gambling. The average
football time is 500-1,000 baht, the most being 52.5 percent. University students use online media as the source
of information used to make football betting decisions is 53.5 percent. In the most step (ball) format, 51.5
percentof football players play with phone method 47.0percent, with the highest result of 38.5percent. If losing
a lot of football betting at one time, will reduce the amount of money to play as much as possible 46.5 percent,
when experiencing money problems because gambling will solve the problem by borrowing friends/close ones
into thinking 45.5 percent. And the greatest impact on football betting is 38.5 percent.
The results of the survey behavior and attitude towards football gambling of the university student in
the eastern regionfound that the overall picture of students had a moderate level of attitude (average = 2.89). The first
3 are the 10 issues. Issue 10;you think football betting is a risk (average = 4.11). Issue 1; you think football betting is
an easy way to earn money (average = 3.71). And issues 8; you think the football gambling bring to the friend
group/social well (average = 3.47).
And from finding the relationship between personal factors and attitudes towards football gambling of
the university studentsfound that students with gender, age, group, follow-up information about football and
different residences having a level of attitude towards football gambling not different. For students with the
average income of students per month is different, have a level of attitude towards football gambling differently
on statistical significance at the level of .05.