Individual risk factors and prediction of gambling disorder in online sports bettors - the longitudinal RIGAB study.

Autor:	Wirkus T; Department of Psychology, Institute for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany., Czernecka R; Department of Psychology, Institute for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.; Institut für Therapieforschung IFT, Prävention und betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung GmbH, München, Germany., Bühringer G; Department of Psychology, Institute for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.; Institut für Therapieforschung IFT, Prävention und betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung GmbH, München, Germany.; Department of Clinical Research, Faculty of Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark., Kräplin A; Department of Psychology, Institute for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in psychiatry [Front Psychiatry] 2024 Feb 27; Vol. 15, pp. 1320592. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Feb 27 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI:	10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1320592
Abstrakt:	Introduction: While research in online sports betting is dominated by studies using objective player tracking data from providers to identify risky gambling behavior, basicresearch has identified various putative individual risk factors assumed to underlie the development of gambling disorder across all types of gambling. This study aims to examine individual risk factors and their longitudinal clinical relevance in online sports bettors. Methods: German online sports bettors ( N = 607, M age = 34, 92% male) from a provider based sample took part in an online survey. The study team randomly preselected customers to be invited. N = 325 (53,45%) of the participants also took part in an online follow-up survey one year later. Crosssectional and longitudinal associations of putative risk factors and DSM-5 gambling disorder in online sports bettors were analyzed. These risk factors include alcohol and tobacco use, impulsivity, difficulties in emotion identification, emotion regulation strategies, comorbid mental disorders and stress. Results: We found more pronounced impulsivity, difficulties in emotion identification, emotion suppression, comorbid mental disorders and stress were cross-sectionally associated with gambling disorder, and longitudinally predicted gambling disorder in online sports bettors (with the exception of emotion suppression). In an overall model only lack of premeditation and perceived helplessness remained significant as predictors for gambling disorder. Online sports bettors with gambling disorder predominantly showed more pronounced risk factors, which were also confirmed longitudinally as relevant for the maintenance of gambling disorder. Discussion: Risk factors such as impulsivity and stress and appropriate coping mechanisms should consequently be integrated not only into prevention efforts to identify individuals at risk early, but also into intervention efforts to tailor treatment. Competing Interests: Authors RC and GB were employed by the company IFT Prävention und betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung GmbH, München. TW is funded by an unrestricted research donation to Technische Universität Dresden provided by Tipico. In the last 5 years RC was partly funded by an unrestricted research grant of members of the ‘Düsseldorfer Kreis’ (a group of key stakeholders from public and private gambling providers, research, and the support system) to Technische Universität Dresden and is now partly funded by an unrestricted research grant from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in the context of the evaluation of gambling hall regulations. GB received unrestricted grants for gambling research activities from various public and commercial gambling providers and regulatory agencies. He is a member of the ‘Düsseldorfer Kreis’ (a group of key stakeholders from public and private gambling providers, research, and the support system) and was also partly funded by an unrestricted research grant from the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action as part of the evaluation of gambling hall regulations. AK is mainly funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG) within the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 940 (project number 178833530). She is additionally funded by a grant from theInternational Center for Responsible Gaming (ICRG) and was additionally funded by an unrestricted research grant from the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action as part of the evaluation of gambling hall regulations from January 2022 until March 2023. (Copyright © 2024 Wirkus, Czernecka, Bühringer and Kräplin.)
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