Abstract

This study aimed to examine the relationship between media use and harmful environments of adolescents who have experienced gambling games using network analysis, and to derive youth illegal online gambling prevention and intervention measures. After selecting analysis variables for each media, behavior, drug, and business area based on youth media use and harmful environment survey data, network estimation and visualization, centrality, stability, accuracy, and network comparison analysis were performed. Results revealed no difference in the relationship between network of media use and harmful environments of gambling game youth in 2020 or 2022. Youth gambling problem was found to be closely related to addiction problems such as alcohol, tobacco, and pornography. To break this influence, management and supervision of indoor sports facilities, delivery orders, restaurants/restaurants, entertainment/short bars, night/music clubs, and video/DVD rooms are required as channels for alcohol, tobacco, pornography (SNS, Internet/mobile messengers) and alcohol/cigarettes. Finally, the significance and implications of research results are proposed.