establishments into six types and utilized the items listed in Table 2
to determine the social background of each resident. To analyze the
relationships between the examined variables, this research study
used an independent t-test for the analysis of the variable “Gender”,
a Chi-square test for the analysis of the item “Occupation”, and
ANOVA for the analysis of the items “Age”, “Education”, “Marital
status”, “Time-span of living here” and “Monthly income”. The
outcomes of these analyses are displayed in Tables 7e9.
As shown in Table 7, the female residents of Macau believe that
the development of casino gambling will contribute to “positive
economic impacts” more than the male residents. Conversely, the
female residents of Singapore more strongly believe that the
establishment of casino gambling will cause “negative social impacts”
than the male residents. Beginning in the 1930s, the developmental
history of casino gambling is more than eighty years old
and has already earned Macau its famous title of “Monte Carlo of
the Orient”. Therefore, the gaming industries in Macau have created
many job opportunities for its residents. In general, the occupational
attributes of gaming industries (particularly in regard to
casino gambling and its related hospitality) can be primarily categorized
into the “service industry”, which provides many job vacancies
for “emotional labor” and “secondary labor”. From the
perspective of sociological functionalism, the development of a
“gendered division of labor” originates from the social evolutions
regarding the functional contributions of males and females: males
take the instrumental roles, and females take the emotional ones in