Pub Date : 2021-10-18DOI: 10.1080/14459795.2021.1985582
J. Gorenko, C. Konnert, T. O’Neill, D. Hodgins
ABSTRACT The nine-item Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) is a self-report measure of problem gambling severity used in empirical and prevalence studies. This study examined the psychometric properties of the PGSI among older adult samples (60+ years), which have not yet been evaluated in the literature. Age equivalence of measures originally developed for use among general adult samples cannot be assumed; thus, such instruments should be evaluated to ensure appropriate use of such measures. Data were derived from the Leisure, Lifestyle, and Lifecycle Project and Quinte Longitudinal Study. Results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported a single-factor structure. Factor invariance between genders was identified. Internal consistency was considered good for the overall sample (α = .86). Concurrent validity between monthly overall gambling frequency and game types (EGMs, bingo, and instant win tickets) were supported for both continuous PGSI total score and categorical PGSI. In sum, the PGSI total score accurately reflects the construct of problem gambling among older adults.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-12DOI: 10.1080/14459795.2021.1985583
Maria Ciccarelli, Marina Cosenza, G. Nigro, M. Griffiths, F. D’Olimpio
ABSTRACT The 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) formally recognized gaming disorder as an addictive health disorder like gambling disorder. The ICD-11 assumes that excessive online gaming can lead to functional/clinical impairments and psychological distress among a minority of individuals. The present study investigated similarities and commonalities between internet gaming disorder (IGD) and gambling disorder among adolescents (N = 366 students, 13–19 years). Participants completed the South Oaks Gambling Screen Revised for Adolescents (SOGS-RA), the Internet Gaming Disorder Scale-Short Form (IGDS9-SF), the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 Brief Form (PID-5-BF), the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ-8), the Consideration of Future Consequences Scale (CFC-14), and the Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale (A-DES). Regression analyses showed that the significant predictors of (i) gambling severity were being male, high scores on the PID-5-BF Disinhibition and Antagonism domains, and low scores on RFQ-Certainty and CFC-Future subscales, and (ii) gaming severity were being male, high scores on the PID-5-BF Detachment scale and the A-DES, and low scores on the RFQ-Certainty. Risk factors shared by both disorders were male gender and impaired mentalization. Specific interventions on mentalization abilities may be useful in reducing and preventing problematic involvement in both gaming and gambling among adolescents.
{"title":"Gaming and gambling in adolescence: the role of personality, reflective functioning, time perspective and dissociation","authors":"Maria Ciccarelli, Marina Cosenza, G. Nigro, M. Griffiths, F. D’Olimpio","doi":"10.1080/14459795.2021.1985583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14459795.2021.1985583","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) formally recognized gaming disorder as an addictive health disorder like gambling disorder. The ICD-11 assumes that excessive online gaming can lead to functional/clinical impairments and psychological distress among a minority of individuals. The present study investigated similarities and commonalities between internet gaming disorder (IGD) and gambling disorder among adolescents (N = 366 students, 13–19 years). Participants completed the South Oaks Gambling Screen Revised for Adolescents (SOGS-RA), the Internet Gaming Disorder Scale-Short Form (IGDS9-SF), the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 Brief Form (PID-5-BF), the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ-8), the Consideration of Future Consequences Scale (CFC-14), and the Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale (A-DES). Regression analyses showed that the significant predictors of (i) gambling severity were being male, high scores on the PID-5-BF Disinhibition and Antagonism domains, and low scores on RFQ-Certainty and CFC-Future subscales, and (ii) gaming severity were being male, high scores on the PID-5-BF Detachment scale and the A-DES, and low scores on the RFQ-Certainty. Risk factors shared by both disorders were male gender and impaired mentalization. Specific interventions on mentalization abilities may be useful in reducing and preventing problematic involvement in both gaming and gambling among adolescents.","PeriodicalId":47301,"journal":{"name":"International Gambling Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41885518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-11DOI: 10.1080/14459795.2021.1956562
E. Georgiadou, A. Müller, A. Koopmann, T. Leménager, T. Hillemacher, F. Kiefer
ABSTRACT The present study aimed to investigate potential changes in gambling behavior and their association with pandemic-related opinions and feelings during the lockdown in Germany. An online survey promoted via print and social media channels as well as radio interviews was conducted between 8 April and 11 May 2020 to assess self-reported changes in gambling activities and related opinions, health fears and perceived stress due to the social restrictions during the lockdown. Out of the total voluntary response sample (N = 3245, 63.9% females, 45.1% completed more than 13 school years), 66.9% (n = 2172) did not gamble neither before nor during the lockdown, 2.4% (n = 79) gambled more, 3.6% (n = 117) gambled less, 12.7% (n = 413) did not change their gambling behavior, 12.9% (n = 420) stopped gambling and 1.4% (n = 44) started gambling. The highest increase in gambling activities was related to online slot machines and online/offline roulette/card games. Higher perceived stress due to the restrictions was associated with an increase or onset of gambling. While many individuals reduced or even stopped gambling, for a minority the restrictions were associated with an increase of gambling activities. Future studies are needed to assess how subsequent lockdowns affect gambling over the longer term.
{"title":"Changes in gambling behavior during the COVID-19 lockdown in Germany","authors":"E. Georgiadou, A. Müller, A. Koopmann, T. Leménager, T. Hillemacher, F. Kiefer","doi":"10.1080/14459795.2021.1956562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14459795.2021.1956562","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present study aimed to investigate potential changes in gambling behavior and their association with pandemic-related opinions and feelings during the lockdown in Germany. An online survey promoted via print and social media channels as well as radio interviews was conducted between 8 April and 11 May 2020 to assess self-reported changes in gambling activities and related opinions, health fears and perceived stress due to the social restrictions during the lockdown. Out of the total voluntary response sample (N = 3245, 63.9% females, 45.1% completed more than 13 school years), 66.9% (n = 2172) did not gamble neither before nor during the lockdown, 2.4% (n = 79) gambled more, 3.6% (n = 117) gambled less, 12.7% (n = 413) did not change their gambling behavior, 12.9% (n = 420) stopped gambling and 1.4% (n = 44) started gambling. The highest increase in gambling activities was related to online slot machines and online/offline roulette/card games. Higher perceived stress due to the restrictions was associated with an increase or onset of gambling. While many individuals reduced or even stopped gambling, for a minority the restrictions were associated with an increase of gambling activities. Future studies are needed to assess how subsequent lockdowns affect gambling over the longer term.","PeriodicalId":47301,"journal":{"name":"International Gambling Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41828820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-11DOI: 10.1080/14459795.2021.1973534
N. Hing, Catherine O’Mullan, H. Breen, E. Nuske, Lydia Mainey
ABSTRACT This paper adopts a gendered perspective exploring how gambling by a male partner contributes to intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Unstructured interviews with 30 women with lived experience of male partner violence linked to his gambling were analyzed using adaptive grounded theory. Gendered drivers of violence set the context for IPV experienced by these women. Their male partners held strict patriarchal views about gender roles, controlled decision-making, restricted the woman’s independence, and condoned using violence against women. Gambling by the male partner interacted with these gendered drivers to increase the frequency and severity of IPV. They prioritized their gambling above the family’s welfare, controlled household finances, and coerced the woman into providing money. Gambling created situations that increased IPV, including anger over losses, family stressors and conflicts, with violent backlash silencing the woman’s objections. Violence intensified as the gambling escalated, with short-term cycles of violence directly linked to gambling events. Women experienced financial, psychological, physical and sexual abuse, and patterns of coercive control that maintained a climate of fear. These findings reveal the centrality of gender inequality within intimate relationships as a foundation for IPV, which is then exacerbated by the perpetrator’s gambling.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-03DOI: 10.1080/14459795.2021.1973535
A. Russell, M. Browne, N. Hing, M. Rockloff, P. Newall
ABSTRACT Pickering and Blaszczynski’s paper (2021) claims that the problem gambling rate is inflated in paid online convenience and crowdsourced samples. However, there is a methodological flaw in their findings: they combined problem gambling rates from samples that are specific by design (e.g. at-least monthly sports bettors), and compared them to a problem gambling prevalence estimate from the general population. Pickering and Blaszczynski conflate three constructs: representativeness, bias and data quality. Data quality can be optimized through protections and checks, but these do not necessarily make samples more representative, or less biased. Many of the biases present in paid online convenience samples (e.g. self-selection biases) also apply to the gold standard of random digit dial telephone surveys, which is manifestly evident in very low response rates. These biases are also present in industry-recruited and venue-recruited samples, as well as samples of university students and treatment-seeking clients. Paid online convenience samples also have clear benefits. For example, it is possible to obtain large samples of very specific subgroups. Online surveys may reduce bias associated with self-reporting potentially stigmatizing conditions, like problem gambling. It is important not to discount research simply because it uses a paid online convenience or crowdsourced sample.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/14459795.2021.1918209
Fabio Frisone
To the Editor, I would like to thank you for the work that the International Gambling Studies is doing. The interdisciplinary horizons of the research contribute to have new aspects to better understand the phenomenon of gambling. In this regard, I intend to present phenomenological psychopathology to study the problem gambling. This approach, which aims to deepen the links between mental disorders and subjective experiences, helps to make sense of psychic suffering and the relationship that the individual has with the world (Stanghellini et al., 2019). Until now, natural science and psychology have studied substance-related disorders and behavioral addiction as gambling starting from the impulsive stresses that connote the psychophysiological state of addiction. Behavioral addiction has been defined as a behavioral disorder and it was not included among the substance-related disorders, even though it shares some characteristics as the direct activation of the brain reward system (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). This classification emphasized the study of the body as an organism and, thus, the above phenomena were classified under the term addiction. Addiction (Oxford English Dictionary, 2008) derives from the Latin addictus, a term used in ancient Rome to indicate a state of slavery. Thus, for science, the person who exhibits these behaviors is considered mainly as a slave to his impulses. Following the preceding considerations, I intend to combine the natural scientific view with phenomenological psychopathology, which aims to study the body as a lived body (Leib) and not as a mere organism (Körper). In this way, it becomes possible not only to fully explain (Erklären) but also to understand (Verstehen) the behavioral addiction of gambling. In explaining, problem gambling is represented by laws or theories that, like physiology, search for causes, while understanding this phenomenon means searching for the meaning (Bedeutung) (Jaspers, 1964) that the single gambler attributes to it . Phenomenological psychopathology offers psychology a way to broaden its view of gambling. Going beyond what logical empiricism offers, phenomenological psychopathology proposes to investigate, above all, the intentionality of consciousness of a being-in-the-world (Heidegger & Von Herrmann, 1977), that is, of an individual who is constitutively related to the world. This is a crucial point in understanding the shift that takes place from the state of being-thrown (Ge-worfen) to that of being-projected (Entworfen) to make the world inhabitable. In other words, the phenomenological approach emphasizes the importance of the existentials a priori that characterize an individual, i.e. the matrices that represent the possible ways in which the individual relates to the world (Heidegger & Von Herrmann, 1977). This method requests two conditions: 1) to go beyond the subject-object relation INTERNATIONAL GAMBLING STUDIES 2021, VOL. 21, NO. 3, 537–541 https://doi.org
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Pub Date : 2021-08-20DOI: 10.1080/14459795.2021.1965184
Cătălin Bărboianu
{"title":"Luck, logic, and white lies: the mathematics of games, second edition","authors":"Cătălin Bărboianu","doi":"10.1080/14459795.2021.1965184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14459795.2021.1965184","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47301,"journal":{"name":"International Gambling Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47683388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-10DOI: 10.1080/14459795.2021.1962387
Jaume García, L. Pérez
ABSTRACT To what extent nationalist sentiments affect economic behavior is still an open question. In this paper a study of emerging and competing lottery markets in the same jurisdiction (Catalonia, a Spanish region) is conducted to explore the impact of such nationalistic feelings in the demand for gambling. The use of panel data allows controlling for changing economic and demographic conditions at the province level and their potential effect on the analyzed lottery markets. The results from a difference-in-difference regression analysis indicate that a statistically significant but limited impact of the introduction of the new lottery exists, suggesting that the observed shift in the existing market demand may respond, beyond mere economic determinants, to behavioral biases (e.g. identification feeling with the new lottery).
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Pub Date : 2021-07-09DOI: 10.1080/14459795.2021.1946125
Mark van der Maas, L. Nower, Kyra A Saniewski
ABSTRACT The lottery is the most widely available form of legal gambling in the US. However, there is relatively little work in promoting responsible gambling strategies by lottery providers. The current study applies five evidence-based responsible gambling strategies, to the responsible gambling information made available on 46 state lottery websites. The study employed a content analysis of the public-facing websites. The study found that a minority of the state lottery sites provided readily available information to the public for each of five strategies. Responsible gambling information was limited in most cases with several notable and informative exceptions. Findings are discussed in the context of public health education and harm reduction approaches in the provision of gambling products. The responsible gambling framework is premised on the notion of well-informed participants. Poor integration of responsible gambling strategies for the most widely available form of gambling points to the shortcomings of this framework in practice. Lottery operators should strive to increase their adoption of a greater range of responsible gambling approaches and increase the visibility of relevant information for potential participants.
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