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Desire for Control and Gambling Behavior among Problem Gamblers

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1985
The relationship between individual differences in the general desire to control events and gambling behavior was examined. Desire for control scores for members of a Gamblers Anonymous group were found to be significantly related to how frequently the gamblers had bet upon games and events containing a slight perception of controllability. Consistent
Jerry M. Burger, Norris G. Smith
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Examining Change in Self-Reported Gambling Measures Over Time as Related to Socially Desirable Responding Bias

Journal of Gambling Studies, 2020
Socially desirable responding is a response bias that can affect the accuracy of self-reports. It is especially likely when questions address sensitive topics, such as gambling attitudes, problems and behaviours. A sample of 321 participants were recruited from Amazon's mTurk crowdsourcing platform for a randomized controlled trial investigating an ...
Christina Schell, Alexandra Godinho, John A. Cunningham   +2 more
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Understanding the Effects of Social Desirability on Gambling Self-Reports

International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2016
Gambling self-reports may be subject to several types of bias, including social desirability bias, which may undermine their utility for capturing gambling behaviour in both research and clinical practice. Retrospective self-reports of gambling are frequently used to assess patterns of behaviour over specific periods of time, but may not be as reliable
Abby L. Goldstein, Natalie Vilhena-Churchill, Melanie Munroe, Sherry H. Stewart, Gordon L. Flett, Peter N. S. Hoaken   +5 more
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Desire Thinking About Gambling: Assessment and Associations With Gambling Disorder and Responsible Gambling Among Chinese Gamblers

Journal of Gambling Studies
Desire thinking, within the metacognitive model of addictive behaviors, is conceptualized as a transdiagnostic process linked to the escalation and maintenance of craving for various addictive disorders; however, its application to the understanding of gambling and the Chinese community remains at an early stage.
Juliet Honglei Chen, Marcantonio M. Spada, Haofeng Ling, Kwok Kit Tong, Anise M. S. Wu   +4 more
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The role of alexithymia, boredom, desire thinking, and subjective risk intelligence in individuals with gambling disorder: a cross-sectional study

Minerva Psychiatry, 2023
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to explore the association between alexithymia, boredom, desire thinking, and subjective risk intelligence in individuals with gambling disorder (GD).METHODS: A total of 94 participants (47 disordered gamblers and 47 control subjects) completed the following questionnaires: Toronto Alexithymia Scale -20 (TAS-20 ...
CRAPARO, Giuseppe, LA ROSA, Valentina L., FARACI, Palmira, COSTANZO, Giulia, VOLPE, Sara, GORI, Alessio, VICARIO, Carmelo M.   +6 more
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Epistemic irrelevance on sets of desirable gambles

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 2005
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Gambling and Increased Sexual Desire With Dopaminergic Medications in Restless Legs Syndrome

Clinical Neuropharmacology, 2007
Do patients with restless legs syndrome (RLS) report gambling or other abnormal behaviors as previously reported in Parkinson disease.This survey study was sent to 261 idiopathic RLS patients, and it included the Gambling Symptoms Assessment Scale, Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale, and questions pertaining to sexual activity and novelty-seeking behaviors.
Erika D, Driver-Dunckley, Brie N, Noble, Joseph G, Hentz, Virgilio G H, Evidente, John N, Caviness, James, Parish, Lois, Krahn, Charles H, Adler   +7 more
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Digital Gambling: The Coincidence of Desire and Design

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2005
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Las Vegas among game developers and machine gamblers, I correlate a set of digitally enhanced game features with phenomenological aspects of gamblers’ experience, demonstrating the intimate connection between extreme states of subjective absorption in play and design elements that manipulate space and time
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The effects of desire for control and extrinsic rewards on the illusion of control and gambling

Motivation and Emotion, 1982
The role of individual differences in the desire to control events in an “illusion of control” situation was examined. Subjects high and low in the desire for control played several trials of a gambling game under conditions either facilitating or not facilitating the perception that the subject had control over the outcome of the game.
Jerry M. Burger, Deborah A. Schnerring
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[Pathological gambling. An empirical study of the desire for addictive substances].

Der Nervenarzt, 2005
Drug craving, the irresistible urge for drug intake, is being discussed as a central construct for the explanation of addictive behaviour and for relapses so far only in substance-related addiction. Based on learning models for the maintenance of addiction, in this study, cue-induced craving and psychological variables that influence craving were ...
S M, Grüsser, B, Plöntzke, U, Albrecht
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