“…Our results confirm that PG is related to significant psychiatric comorbidity (Crockford & el-Guebaly, 1998;Dell'Osso, Allen, & Hollander, 2005). Several studies have observed that gambling is used to regulate negative emotional estates associated to life-events, dissatisfactions, and frustrations (Burge, Pietrzak, Molina, & Petry, 2004;Grant & Kim, 2002;Hand, 1998;Jiménez-Murcia et al, 2007;Potenza et al, 2001;Scannell, Quirk, Smith, Maddern, & Dickerson, 2000).…”