Pathological Gamblers, Heroin Addicts and Controls Compared on the E.P.Q.'Addiction Scale'
| Autor: | Neil McConaghy, A. P. Blaszczynski, N. Buhrich |
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| Rok vydání: | 1985 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Personality Inventory Psychometrics media_common.quotation_subject Medicine (miscellaneous) Risk-Taking Psychoticism mental disorders medicine Humans Personality test Psychiatry media_common Heroin Dependence Addiction medicine.disease Neuroticism Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Substance abuse Psychiatry and Mental health Gambling Exploratory Behavior Anxiety Female medicine.symptom Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Addiction. 80:315-319 |
| ISSN: | 1360-0443 0965-2140 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1985.tb02545.x |
| Popis: | Summary A 32 item Addiction Scale derived from the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire was administered to 60 pathological gamblers, 25 male and 26 female heroin addicts and 27 male and 25 female controls. The purpose of the study was to replicate Gossop and Eysenck's (1980) finding that the scale differentiated drug addicts from controls and to test the hypothesis that pathological gambling is an addictive disorder and that pathological gamblers would show a profile similar to substance addicts. Gossop and Eysenck's findings were replicated. Results also supported the present hypothesis. Male addicts and gamblers had significantly higher Addiction, Neuroticism and Psychoticism scale scores than controls. Female addicts scored significantly higher on the Addiction and Psychoticism scales than their female counterparts. As items composing the scale load on anxiety and depression it was concluded that any similarities between pathological gamblers and substance addicts may reflect a general factor of affective disturbance. The role of excitement and arousal as the addictive agent in pathological gambling is discussed. |
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