1 Scoping Review Protocol Title: Loot Boxes, eSports Betting and Skin Betting: A Scoping Review Protocol to Map the Empirical Research on Engagement in Gambling-Like Activities and Problem Gambling and Gaming Behaviours Authors: Hyoun S. (Andrew) Kim1, Diandra Leslie2, Sherry H. Stewart3, Daniel L. King4, Zsolt Demetrovics5,6, André Luiz Monezi Andrade7, Jung-Seok Choi8, Hermano Tavares9, David C. Hodgins2 Affiliations: 1. Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2. Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 3. Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology & Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 4. College of Education, Psychology, & Social Work, Flinders University, Australia 5. Centre of Excellence in Responsible Gaming, University of Gibraltar, Gibraltar, Gibraltar 6. Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 7. Center for Life Science, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil 8. Department of Psychiatry, SMG-SNU Boramae Medical Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea 9. Department of Psychiatry, Instituto de Psiquiatria do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Contact person: Diandra Leslie (
[email protected]) Anticipated start date: April 2021 Anticipated completion date: September 2021 2 Rationale for the Scoping Review Within the past decade, gambling-like activities (GLAs) such as loot boxes, eSports betting, and skin betting have increasingly become part of the video gaming experience – a phenomenon known as convergence. Multiple studies have linked gambling-like activities to problematic gambling and gaming behaviours (Gainsbury et al., 2017; Li et al., 2019; Macey & Hamari, 2019), and concerns about potential harms have led some jurisdictions to begin regulating the availability of these activities.