Testing a Deactivated Virtual Environment in Pathological Gamblers’ Anxiety
| Autor: | Pietro Cipresso, Giuseppe Riva, Michelle Semonella, Alessandra Parisi, Michelle Toti, Aurora Elena Bobocea, Cosimo Tuena, Pier Giovanni Mazzoli |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Gambling disorders
Addictions Anxiety Exposure Gambling Psychometrics Virtual reality media_common.quotation_subject medicine.medical_treatment Exposure therapy computer.software_genre Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy Lights out Gambling Virtual reality Anxiety Exposure Psychometrics Gambling disorders Addictions medicine Settore M-PSI/01 - PSICOLOGIA GENERALE media_common Addiction Virtual machine medicine.symptom Psychology computer Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering ISBN: 9783030258719 MindCare |
| Popis: | In the last decades the use of Virtual Reality for exposure therapy has become a clinical standard and used in most disorders, including pathological gambling. Nonetheless, previous studies reported that exposure therapy might be not effective if the virtual environments present no interactions or break in presence, among other problems. We hypothesized that a virtual environment representing a gambling place but without lights and sounds or other stimuli promoting interactions, was not effective for gamblers. Thus we tested the anxiety level in a group of 20 pathological gamblers in this lights out virtual environment. Our results shown, by using Bayes Factor, that before and after an exposure to the lights out virtual gambling environments there was no difference in anxiety level. The study shed new light in designing and implementing virtual reality exposure therapy for future clinical applications. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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