become familiar with casino gambling. As shown in Table 6, the
answers provided by Singapore residents to the question “Did you
gamble in casinos?” is clearly correlated with “positive economic
impacts” and “positive environmental impacts”. These correlations
indicate that people who never or seldom visit casinos for gambling
slightly agree that the operations of casino gambling contribute to
“positive economic impacts” and “positive environmental impacts”.
Each country primarily launches casino gambling due to economic
considerations, and the positive economic effects of casino
gambling are more easily experienced by casual gamblers within a
short-term period. However, for the people who frequently visit
casinos for gambling, the “economic impact” that they mention
may be purely related to their personal “winning-losing problems”,
and it may be more difficult for these individuals to express their
feelings due to this “economic impact.” Regarding positive environmental
impacts, those respondents who always linger in the
casinos spend most of their time focusing on the gambling tables
and thus rarely become aware of changes in the outside environments.
The variable “The attitudes toward gambling” demonstrates
significant correlations with all of the “negative impact” dimensions.
This result indicates that those who dislike the act of
gambling believe that the creation of casino gambling would cause
only negative impacts, even though this belief could be purely
founded upon the perception of moral values instead of an objective
rational judgment. The item “Do you like to work in gaming
industries?” was only correlated with the variable “negative social
impacts”. Those who do not like to work for the gaming industries
believe that the operations of casino gambling will cause negative
social impacts, but this consideration could also originate from the
moral standard of social values.
In sum, Macau's and Singapore's residents exhibit clear differences
in regard to the correlations between their “behaviors and
attitudes toward gambling” and “their viewpoints toward the influences
of casino gambling establishments.” Therefore, hypothesis
two of this study is partially supported.
4.4. The analysis of differences between various attributes of
residents' backgrounds and their perspectives regarding the
influence of casino gambling establishments
The third purpose of this study was to explore whether the
differences in the residents' standpoints toward the influence of
casino gambling establishment is due to differences in their social
backgrounds. Thus, this study categorized the influence of casino