Electronic Betting and its Bilateral Implications for Family Life Stability: An Analytical Study Using the Direct Association Model (APIM) Between Children and Parents.

The study aimed to reveal the repercussions of the phenomenon of electronic betting on the stability of the family life of children and parents through a bilateral analysis within the framework of the model of interdependence between the actor and the partner. This study belongs to the descriptive studies, which employed the survey method. By sample, relying on the questionnaire as a tool for collecting data from a multi-stage sample, This is according to the “MONTECARLO” simulation, and a sample of (530) respondents from ten Egyptian governorates participated in the application. The study concluded several results, the most important of which are: that the intensity of use of betting applications ranged from “high” for children, To a “medium” degree for parents, and the effects of these applications on the various dimensions of family life are numerous. Its percentage ranged from a “high” degree for the children, to a “very high” degree for the parents, and in a related context, the degree of the level of the children and their parents’ practice of betting practices reached a “medium to high” degree for both of them, as well as for the children. Their parents have an “average” level of family life stability for both of them.

In a related context, the results of bilateral analyzes based on the direct interdependence model between actor and partner (APIM) indicated that the level of stability of children’s family life is negatively related to the level of electronic betting practice among them and their parents,