Behavioral Risk Factors in Disordered Gambling and Treatment Implications

Delfabbro, Paul

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“…The Gambling Space Model (GSM) has been recently proposed to integrate these approaches to heterogeneity in gambling disorder (Navas, Billieux, Verdejo-García, & Perales, 2018). Inspired by the Pathways Model (Blaszczynski & Nower, 2002), gambling addiction is modelled as mostly driven by instrumental and Pavlovian conditioning processes, linked to the reinforcement schedules present in gambling scenarios (Delfabbro, 2014). Beyond these, however, different psychobiology-informed, affect/emotion-driven constructs play different roles in shaping GD vulnerability and development (see also Williams, Grisham, Erskine, & Cassedy, 2012;Maniaci, Picone, van Holst, Bolloni, Scardina, & Cannizaro, 2017).…”

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Types of Emotion Regulation and Their Associations with Gambling: A Cross-Sectional Study with Disordered and Non-problem Ecuadorian Gamblers

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Types of Emotion Regulation and Their Associations with Gambling: A Cross-Sectional Study with Disordered and Non-problem Ecuadorian Gamblers

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“…The premise underlying cooling-off periods is that individuals, because of deficits in emotional regulation, operant condition, or financial pressure to chase losses, may impulsively decide to continue play (Delfabbro, 2014;Lesieur, 1984;Williams, Grisham, Erskine, & Cassidy, 2012), or increase preset limits to extend current or future sessions of play. Cooling-off periods are important in offering gamblers time to reconsider and re-evaluate their decisions to gamble, particularly decisions made impulsively and without consideration of their consequences.…”

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“…An individual's capacity to self-regulate can be undermined by a series of factors, including: inability to regulate emotions (Scannel et al, 2000; and the use of emotion over problem-focused coping strategies (Blaszczynski, McConaghy, & Frankova, 1990); erroneous gambling cognitions (see Hodgins & Holub, 2007;Petry, 2005); heightened states of arousal (see Abrams & Krushner, 2004;Delfabbro, 2014); and neurotransmitter deregulation (Humphreys & Richards, 2014;Gouudriaan, van Holst, Veltman, & den Brink, 2014). In recognition of the difficulties gamblers have in maintaining self-control during periods of heightened arousal or emotion (Sharpe, Tarrier, Schotte, & Spense, 1995;Baudinet & Blaszczynski, 2012;William, Grisham, Erskine, & Cassidy, 2012) it is essential from a harm minimisation perspective to implement strategies aimed at facilitating player control during gambling.…”

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Facilitating Player Control in Gambling

Blaszczynski

Parke

Harris

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Research indicates that gamblers frequently set self-imposed limits on how much time and money they wish to gamble in a given gambling session, yet consistently gamble more than initially intended. The emotional and arousing impact of gambling, as well as dissociative states gamblers experience whilst gambling, may contribute to this behavioural shift which reflects a failure in self-control. Essential then, is the need for harm minimisation strategies aimed at allowing a gambler to stay in control of their decisions and behaviour during gambling, whilst concurrently limiting the negative impact this may have on the gambling experience for those who frequently stay in control. The following article evaluates the use of limit setting and pre-commitment, the use of ‘cooling off’ periods, and restricting access to additional funds as harm minimisation strategies, in terms of their efficacy in facilitating self-control in problem and non-problem gambling populations. As with any potential mass intervention, such as the use of mandatory limit setting, the need for robust empirical evidence to prove its efficacy is essential. Existing research, while providing promise, falls short of this criterion, indicating a requirement for more stringent empirical research to best guide responsible gambling practices aimed at facilitating player control during gambling.

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“…unlimited availability, gambling in turn, frequency of betting, parallel gambling activities, lack of social control, etc.) provide strong impulses reinforcing urge to play and leading to the development of a gambling disorder (8)(9)(10). Young men in particular represent a highly vulnerable group (11).…”

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Social and lifestyle characteristics of sports bettors in Serbia

Todorović¹,

Terzić-Šupić²,

Kilibarda³

et al. 2022

Medicinska istraživanja

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Aim: The aim of our study was to examine the prevalence of sports betting in the previous month in Serbia and its association with social and lifestyle characteristics. Methods: The analysis of the data from the cross-sectional survey National Survey on lifestyles in Serbia: substance abuse and gambling conducted in 2014 was performed. 10% of participants reported sports betting in the past 30 days. Results: Sports betting was associated with male gender, living in urban areas compared to living in rural areas, having secondary education compared to having primary education, being employed compared to being retired. Sports betting in the previous month was also associated with binge-drinking compared to abstaining from alcohol, non-prescription use of anti-anxiety medications compared to no use of anti-anxiety medications and low/ moderate problem gambling compared to no problem gambling as measured by PGSI. However, it was not associated with a higher risk of tobacco smoking and illicit drug use. Conclusions: The association of sports betting with risk behaviors among young males should be a concern for public health authorities.

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Behavioral Risk Factors in Disordered Gambling and Treatment Implications

Cited by 5 publications

References 87 publications

Types of Emotion Regulation and Their Associations with Gambling: A Cross-Sectional Study with Disordered and Non-problem Ecuadorian Gamblers

Types of Emotion Regulation and Their Associations with Gambling: A Cross-Sectional Study with Disordered and Non-problem Ecuadorian Gamblers

Facilitating Player Control in Gambling

Social and lifestyle characteristics of sports bettors in Serbia

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