Applying the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) to Gambling Disorder: Its Psychometric Properties in Chinese Adults

Dang, Le; Zhang, Meng Xuan; Lau, Joseph T. F.; Leong, Karlas Kin-hei; Wu, Anise M. S.

doi:10.1007/s11469-022-00837-7

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“…Therefore, gamblers with high levels of emotional representations of GD (e.g., feeling very anxious and scared of GD) may tend to avoid thinking about GD-related problems and be less driven to control their gambling. Indeed, the only study on illness representations of GD has shown that probable GD gamblers tended to report stronger emotional representations of GD than their non-GD counterparts (Dang et al, 2022). In this study, we therefore made the following hypotheses:…”

Section: Associations Of Illness Representations Of Gd With Rg and Su...mentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Illness representations for GD Three illness representations (i.e., consequences, illness coherence, and emotional representations) for GD were measured using the Chinese version of the Revised Illness Perceptions Scale for Gambling Disorder (Dang et al, 2022), which was validated among Chinese adults and showed satisfactory validity and reliability. Respondents rated agreement with items on a 5-point Likert scale (scores ranged from 1 to 5; 1 = strongly disagree and 5 = strongly agree), with higher mean scores representing higher corresponding illness representations of GD.…”

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“…Gambling habits and behaviors are controllable for individuals who are not yet addicted to gambling (Currie et al, 2020). According to Dang et al 's (Dang et al, 2022) pioneering study on illness representations of GD, people's gambling behaviors vary according to their perceptions of the consequences of GD, perceived coherence of GD, and emotional representations of GD. In particular, gamblers of high GD risks were found to perceive GD as having fewer harmful consequences than their counterparts.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to CSM, the negative association between perceived consequences and symptoms of GD (Dang et al, 2022) may be attributed to the motivational effect of the illness representation (Diefenbach and Leventhal, 1996;Cameron and Moss-Moris, 2010), which may drive gamblers to not only build greater awareness of their relation to, and responsibility over, the illness, but also to acquire better knowledge about games and gambling to avoid GD development; this resultant awareness and acknowledgment, in turn, are believed to result in more RG behaviors and fewer superstitious gambling behaviors. Therefore, it is hypothesized that: H4a: Personal responsibility mediates (at least partially) the relationship between perceived consequences of GD and RG behaviors.…”

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“…However, only one published study to date has applied CSM to GD. Dang et al (2022) adapted the Revised-Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) to investigate GD among Chinese adults and found that compared to the non-GD group, the probable GD group reported lower perceived consequences of GD and showed stronger negative emotional responses to GD. They also found that evergamblers understood GD better than never-gamblers in that they had higher levels of illness coherence of GD.…”

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Investigating the associations of the illness representations of gambling disorder with superstitious and responsible gambling

Yang

Zhou

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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BackgroundAs a theoretical framework for understanding illness self-management, the commonsense model of self-regulation (CSM) has been commonly used to promote health behaviors. However, its application to examining gambling disorder (GD) is still in an exploratory stage.ObjectivesBased on CSM, the current study aimed to address this knowledge gap and test whether illness representations (i.e., perceived consequences, illness coherence, and emotional representations) of GD are associated with gambling behaviors (i.e., responsible gambling [RG] and superstitious gambling). We also aimed to explore the potential mediating role of positive gambling beliefs (i.e., personal responsibility about gambling and gambling literacy) in such associations.MethodsAn online questionnaire survey with snowballing sampling method was administered to Chinese adult past-year gamblers, and 603 valid responses were collected. The structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis with a bootstrapping approach was utilized to test the associations of illness representations with gambling behaviors and the hypothesized mediation effects of positive gambling beliefs.ResultsWe found that (a) perceived consequences of GD had significant, positive associations with RG and negative associations with superstitious gambling, with positive gambling beliefs acting as full mediators; (b) emotional representations for GD showed significant, negative correlations with RG and positive ones with superstitious gambling, with positive gambling beliefs acting as full and partial mediators, respectively; (c) the direct effect of illness coherence of GD on superstitious gambling behaviors was unexpectedly positive, and its indirect effects via positive gambling beliefs were nonsignificant.DiscussionUnder the framework of CSM, the current findings provided new insights in understanding both controlled and at-risk gambling patterns from a perspective of illness self-management. We suggest future GD prevention campaigns may adopt psychoeducational programs to help gamblers form a better understanding about GD as an illness, which may promote RG practices and hence lower the risk of developing GD.

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Section: Associations Of Illness Representations Of Gd With Rg and Su...mentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Associations Of Illness Representations Of Gd With Rg and Su...mentioning

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The Relationship Between Problem Gambling, Adult Attachment, Difficulty in Emotion Regulation, and Recovery Capital: A Study of Lottery Gamblers in Chinese Mainland

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Applying the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) to Gambling Disorder: Its Psychometric Properties in Chinese Adults

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Investigating the associations of the illness representations of gambling disorder with superstitious and responsible gambling

Investigating the associations of the illness representations of gambling disorder with superstitious and responsible gambling

Metacognitions About Gambling Among Chinese Gamblers: Translation, Validation, and Application to Understanding Gambling Disorder and Responsible Gambling

The Relationship Between Problem Gambling, Adult Attachment, Difficulty in Emotion Regulation, and Recovery Capital: A Study of Lottery Gamblers in Chinese Mainland

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