G. Russell, Autumn C Puttick, Damien T Spilchen, R. Williams, James L. Sanders
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Abstract
Recently the use of implicit memory associations has expanded in the addiction literature to include the assessment of video gaming and gambling. However, the issue with memory associations lies in the open-ended nature of the answers that must be coded, which is often labour-intensive, costly, and where the ambiguity cannot always be resolved. The present study evaluates participant self-coding of memory associations versus researcher coding in the assessment of memory associations for video gaming and gambling. A sample of 3,176 Canadian adults were asked to produce responses to ten ambiguous words and ten potential behavioural associations for engagement in video gaming or gambling. Participants were subsequently asked to classify what categories their responses belonged to, including video gaming and gambling. Consistent with the literature on alcohol and marijuana memory associations, self-coded scores for video gaming and gambling were significantly higher than scores coded by the researchers, had significantly higher correlations with self-reported behaviours, and significantly improved the prediction of video gaming and gambling behaviours. Resume L’utilisation des associations de la memoire implicite comprend depuis peu l’evaluation des jeux video et des jeux de hasard dans le vocabulaire de la dependance. Le probleme des associations de la memoire reside toutefois dans le caractere ouvert des reponses qui doivent etre codees, ce qui est souvent a haute intensite de main-d’œuvre et couteux. De plus, il est parfois impossible de resoudre l’ambiguite. La presente etude evalue l’autocodage par les participants des associations de la memoire par rapport au codage effectue par le chercheur dans le cadre des jeux video et des jeux de hasard. On a demande a un echantillon de 3 176 Canadiens d’âge adulte de repondre a dix mots ambigus et dix associations comportementales potentielles en rapport avec la participation a des jeux video ou des jeux de hasard. On leur a ensuite demande de classer leurs reponses dans differentes categories, y compris les jeux video et les jeux de hasard. Tout comme dans la documentation sur les associations de memoire dans le domaine de l’alcool et de la marijuana, les pointages autocodes pour les jeux video et les jeux de hasard etaient considerablement plus eleves que ceux codes par les chercheurs, faisaient l’objet d’une correlation beaucoup plus elevee avec des comportements autodeclares, et amelioraient considerablement la prediction de comportements lies aux jeux video et aux jeux de hasard.