Exploring the Predictive Value of Gambling Motives, Cognitive Distortions, and Materialism on Problem Gambling Severity in Adolescents and Young Adults
| Autor: | Isabel Baenas, Mónica Gómez-Peña, Ester Codina, Zaida Agüera, Eduardo Valenciano-Mendoza, Teresa Mena-Moreno, Susana Jiménez-Murcia, Amparo del Pino-Gutiérrez, Roser Granero, Ana Estévez, Lucero Munguía, Laura Macia, Trevor Steward, Laura Moragas, Hibai Lopez-Gonzalez, Naiara López, Gemma Mestre-Bach, Jaione Onaindia, Paula Jauregui, María Lozano-Madrid, Giulia Testa, Fernando Fernández-Aranda, Leire Zamora, Cristina Vintró-Alcaraz, José M. Menchón, Bernat Mora-Maltas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Coping (psychology)
education.field_of_study WOS(2) cognitive distortions Sociology and Political Science Population gambling disorder Cognition Predictive value coping materialism Gambling disorder Community setting Scopus gambling motives Young adult Materialism education Psychology General Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Re-Unir. Archivo Institucional de la Universidad Internacional de La Rioja instname |
| Popis: | Gambling motives and cognitive distortions are thought to be associated because both coping and financial motives to gamble appear to be predictors of gambling related cognitive distortions. Therefore, there is an argument to be made that gambling motives, cognitive distortions, and materialism share common attributes and might be related to problem gambling severity. The present paper aims to examine the relationship between these three variables, both in a clinical and community setting, to see if they can predict gambling severity. A sample of 250 participants from the general population and 31 participants from the clinical population was recruited. The results showed that the clinical sample scored higher on gambling severity, cognitive distortions, materialism, and gambling motives. It also showed that low scores in enhancement motives and higher scores in social motives and gambling related cognitions predicted gambling severity in older gamblers, whereas for younger patients, gambling severity was best predicted by higher scores in materialism and coping motives, and lower scores for enhancement and social motives. In the community sample, gambling severity correlated with gambling related cognitive distortions and with gambling motives (except for social and coping motives within the women subsample). These results testify to the importance of materialism, cognitive distortions, and gambling motives as risk factors for problem gambling both in community and clinical samples. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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