8 articles in this issue
 
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Gerald R. Adams,Anne-Marie Sullivan,Keith D. Horton,Rosanne Menna,Ann Marie Guilmette
Gambling behavior and problem gambling of college students were investigated in universities far from and close to a large casino. A survey of 17 gambling activities was given and the South Oaks Gambling Screen was completed by 1579 students. Approximatel... see more
Sabine M. Grüsser,Babett Plöntzke,Ulrike Albrecht,Chantal Patricia Mörsen
Objective: Lottery gambling has enjoyed great popularity around the world for many years and is generally seen as a socially acceptable form of gambling. Apart from aspects such as effects on charities, pathological lottery gambling and its addictive natu... see more
Crawford Moodie
Although the literature concerning the association between irrational thinking and gambling continues to grow, a number of methodological problems raise questions about the validity of such findings. The present research examined the cognitions and belief... see more
Meredith A. M. Gillespie,Jeffrey Derevensky,Rina Gupta
Positive and negative outcome expectancies have been found to play a significant role in adolescents' decisions to engage in drug and alcohol use. In light of the parallel risk and protective factors among high-risk behaviors, youth gambling outcome expec... see more
The Gambling Expectancy Questionnaire (GEQ; Gillespie, Derevensky & Gupta, 2006, previous article) suggests that adolescents hold a variety of positive and negative outcome expectancies related to gambling. Significant age, gender, and DSM-IV-MR-J gamblin... see more
Philip Schluter,Maria Bellringer,Max Abbott
From a cohort study of Pacific families with children resident in Auckland (n = 983) we examine the association between maternal gambling over the previous 12 months and families' food, shelter, and safety needs. Overall, 666 (68%) mothers reported no gam... see more
Tony Toneatto,Lisa Vettese,Linda Nguyen
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of mindfulness meditation as an important intervention in the alleviation of illness-related disability and distress. Although originally developed within the context of physical illnesses such as chronic back pai... see more