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Number 19 Year 2007

8 articles in this issue 

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

Pags. 9 - 17  

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

Pags. 19 - 29  

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

Pags. 31 - 49  

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

Pags. 51 - 68  

Meredith A. M. Gillespie,Jeffrey Derevensky,Rina Gupta

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

Pags. 69 - 85  

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

Pags. 87 - 90  

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

Pags. 91 - 100