Pathological gambling and the five-factor model of personality

Latent Class Analysis of Gambling Activities in a Sample of Young Swiss Men: Association with Gambling Problems, Substance Use Outcomes, Personality Traits and Coping Strategies

“…With regard to personality traits, higher neuroticism (Bagby et al 2007;Blaszczynski et al 1986;MacLaren et al 2011), higher impulsivity (Steel and Blaszczynski 1998;Lawrence et al 2009), higher sensation seeking (Harris et al 2013;Gupta et al 2006), higher sociability (Zuckerman and Kuhlman 2000), higher psychoticism (Blaszczynski et al 1986), higher hostility (MacLaren et al 2011;Petry 2000), higher aggression (Slutske et al 2005) and lower agreeableness (MacLaren et al 2011) scores were found in excessive gamblers compared to non-problem gamblers. With regard to coping, gambling problems were found to be positively associated with the use of avoidant and emotion-focused strategies, and negatively associated with the use of problem-focused strategies (Bergevin et al 2006;Gupta and Derevensky 2001;Lightsey and Hulsey 2002;Nower et al 2004a).…”

Investigating Risk Factors for Internet Gaming Disorder: A Comparison of Patients with Addictive Gaming, Pathological Gamblers and Healthy Controls regarding the Big Five Personality Traits

“…A prospective investigation [23] showed that low conscientiousness in children was the strongest factor predicting smoking behavior in adulthood. Also, with regard to pathological gambling, high neuroticism and low agreeableness have been found to be predictive factors [24,25,26]. …”

Alexithymia and Pathological Gambling: The Mediating Role of Difficulties in Emotion Regulation

“…1997, Blanco ve ark. 2000, Bagby ve ark. 2007, öğrenme (Dickerson 1979, Lesieur ve Rothchild 1989, Blaszczynski ve Nower 2002, dürtüsellik (Moran 1970, Steel ve Blaszczynski 1998, Vitaro ve ark.…”