Me, Myself, and Money II: Relative Deprivation Predicts Disordered Gambling Severity via Delay Discounting, Especially Among Gamblers Who Have a Financially Focused Self-Concept

Tabri, Nassim; Shead, N. Will; Wohl, Michael J. A.

doi:10.1007/s10899-017-9673-7

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“…Gamblers with a higher financial focus are also more likely to develop gambling problems because they gamble for financial gain and to cope with stress . In addition, they may be more vulnerable to developing disordered gambling because of their greater tendency to delay discount monetary rewards (have a greater preference for smaller immediate rewards relative to larger delayed rewards) in response to feeling financially deprived (Tabri, Shead, & Wohl, 2017). Accordingly, reducing perfectionistic tendencies may help to alleviate a financially focused self-concept and thus disordered gambling.…”

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Perfectionism Predicts Disordered Gambling Via Financially Focused Self-Concept

Tabri

Werner

Milyavskaya

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Perfectionism has been implicated in several psychiatric disorders, including eating disorders, anxiety disorders, and depression. In the current research, we extended the analysis of perfectionism to understand disordered gambling. Unlike other life domains in which people with perfectionistic tendencies can objectively control outcomes (e.g., dieting to control one's body shape or weight in eating disorders), perfectionism in the gambling context is unique because there is little to no objective control over gambling outcomes (i.e., winning money). We hypothesized that gamblers with perfectionistic tendencies may set themselves a high standard within the financial success domain, which would manifest in more severe disordered gambling symptoms. We also hypothesized that having a self-concept that is focused on financial success would mediate the relation between perfectionistic tendencies and disordered gambling severity. To test this mediation model, we asked a community sample of gamblers (n = 258) to complete measures that assessed perfectionistic tendencies, financially focused self-concept, and disordered gambling severity. In line with expectations, there was a moderate positive relation between perfectionistic tendencies and disordered gambling severity, which was further mediated by financially focused self-concept. These findings suggest that perfectionistic tendencies among gamblers are associated with disordered gambling because such tendencies result in a self-concept that is focused on financial success. The findings also suggest that targeting gamblers' perfectionistic tendencies in prevention and treatment interventions may be instrumental in alleviating their financial focus, which would help curtail the development and maintenance of disordered gambling.Keywords: perfectionism, self-concept, disordered gambling, money RésuméOn a établi que le perfectionnisme entrait en ligne de compte dans plusieurs troubles psychiatriques, entre autres les troubles de l'alimentation, les troubles anxieux et la

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Perfectionism Predicts Disordered Gambling Via Financially Focused Self-Concept

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“…Delay discounting refers to the fact that when gamblers are required to make a choice between a small reward delivered immediately and a larger reward delivered after a delay, they tend to discount the delayed reward option, irrespective of the reward magnitude. The steepness of delay discounting is considered a measure of impulsivity and it has been found to be a strong predictor of problem gambling (Alessi & Petry, 2003;Cosenza & Nigro, 2015;Dixon, Marley, & Jacobs, 2003;Goudriaan, Oosterlaan, de Beurs, & van den Brink, 2006;Mishra & Novakowski, 2016;Petry, 2001;Tabri, Shead, & Wohl, 2017;see Wiehler & Peters [2015] for a review). Delay discounting is particularly relevant to gambling in that it involves impulsive monetary choices that are the core feature of disordered gambling (Bickel & Marsch, 2001).…”

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An experimental investigation of the role of delay discounting and craving in gambling chasing behavior

Ciccarelli

Cosenza

D’Olimpio

et al. 2019

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Chasing is a central feature of gambling disorder and refers to the attempt by individuals to recover financial losses by continuing to gamble. Although several efforts have been made to individuate the factors involved in the complex phenomenon of chasing, little is known regarding its association with delay discounting and craving, both considered important in the development and maintenance of gambling disorder. In the present study, the interplay between chasing, delay discounting, and craving (while controlling for gambling severity) was investigated. The sample comprised 128 adult gamblers aged between 18 and 67 years and consisted of non-problem gamblers (n=58), problem gamblers (n=18), and pathological gamblers (n=52) based on the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) scores. Participants were administered the Monetary Choice Questionnaire (MCQ) and the Gambling Craving Scale (GACS), as well as completing the ChasIT, a computerized task assessing chasing behavior. Participants were randomly assigned to the control and the loss condition of the ChasIT. Results showed that pathological gamblers were more likely to chase and reported more severe chasing persistence. Regression analyses indicated that heightened levels of craving and the inability to tolerate delay in gratification, along with gambling severity, predicted both the decision to chase and chasing persistence. The present study contributes important findings to the gambling literature, highlighting the role of craving and delay discounting in facilitating the inability to stop within-sessions gambling. These findings may provide evidence that chasers and non-chasers represent two different types of gamblers, and that the difference may be useful for targeting more effective therapies.

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“…Contrary to previous findings, delay discounting was not associated with personal relative deprivation (e.g., Callan et al ., ; Tabri, Shead & Wohl, ), smoking cigarettes (e.g., Bickel, Odum & Madden, ; Reimers et al ., ), or procrastination (Schouwenburg & Groenewoud, ). Additionally, delay discounting was only sometimes related to arrests (e.g., Mishra & Lalumière, ) and frequency of drinking alcohol.…”

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Measuring delay discounting in a crowdsourced sample: An exploratory study

Rotella

Fogg

Mishra

et al. 2019

Scandinavian J Psychology

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Delay discounting is a measure of preferences for smaller immediate rewards over larger delayed rewards. Discounting has been assessed in many ways; these methods have variably and inconsistently involved measures of different lengths (single vs. multiple items), forced‐choice methods, self‐report methods, online and laboratory assessments, monetary and non‐monetary compensation. The majority of these studies have been conducted in laboratory settings. However, over the past 20 years, behavioral data collection has increasingly shifted online. Usually, these experiments involve completing short tasks for small amounts of money, and are thus qualitatively different than experiments in the lab, which are typically more involved and in a strongly controlled environment. The present study aimed to determine how to best measure future discounting in a crowdsourced sample using three discounting measures (a single shot measure, the 27‐item Kirby Monetary Choice Questionnaire, and a one‐time Matching Task). We examined associations of these measures with theoretically related variables, and assessed influence of payment on responding. Results indicated that correlations between the discounting tasks and conceptually related measures were smaller than in prior laboratory experiments. Moreover, our results suggest providing monetary compensation may attenuate correlations between discounting measures and related variables. These findings suggest that incentivizing discounting measures changes the nature of measurement in these tasks.

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Me, Myself, and Money II: Relative Deprivation Predicts Disordered Gambling Severity via Delay Discounting, Especially Among Gamblers Who Have a Financially Focused Self-Concept

Cited by 38 publications

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Perfectionism Predicts Disordered Gambling Via Financially Focused Self-Concept

Perfectionism Predicts Disordered Gambling Via Financially Focused Self-Concept

An experimental investigation of the role of delay discounting and craving in gambling chasing behavior

Measuring delay discounting in a crowdsourced sample: An exploratory study

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