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Number 29 Year 2014

18 articles in this issue 

John A. Cunningham,David C. Hodgins,Tony Toneatto

The current study explored the relationship in a general population sample between problem gambling severity and cognitive distortions about gambling. A representative sample of problem gamblers (N = 766) was asked about cognitive distortions related to g... see more

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Michael Auer,Doris Malischnig,Mark Griffiths

Certain gambling operators now provide social responsibility tools to help players gamble more responsibly. One such innovation is the use of pop-up messages that aim to give feedback to the players about the time and money they have thus far spent gambli... see more

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Jeffrey N. Weatherly,Kenjiro Aoyama,Heather K. Terrell,J. Colleen Berry

The Gambling Functional Assessment -Revised (GFA-R) was developed to determine the degree to which gambling behaviour was maintained by positive reinforcement or escape. For this study, the GFA-R was translated into Japanese and completed by 126 Japanese ... see more

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Anthony A.B. Hopley,Jennifer Wagner,Richard Nicki

The skill component of Texas hold'em online poker (THOP) adds a unique element to the assessment of risk for problem gambling (PG). The current study examined whether PG among a high earning subgroup of THOP players was analogous to workaholism. Participa... see more

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Catalin Barboianu

Slot machines have gained high popularity despite a specific element that could limit their appeal: non-transparency with respect to mathematical parameters. The PAR sheets, which expose the parameters of the design of slot machines and probabilities asso... see more

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Søren Kristiansen,Sara Marie Jensen,Maria Camilla Trabjerg

This study reports the findings from a national survey on gambling behaviour among students in Danish primary schools, with a special emphasis on risk perception, perceptions of skill and luck, and irrational beliefs. Two thousand two hundred and twenty-t... see more

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Virve Pöysti

Survey data from several countries indicate that public attitudes toward gambling and its deregulation are negative, or at best ambivalent. However, comparative studies on the attitudes of gamblers themselves have not been conducted, despite the valuable ... see more

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Dimitri Kohler

This study estimates the Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) costs of gambling addiction. Pathological gamblers were recruited from treatment centers in Western Switzerland. The difference in HRQoL between pathological gamblers (n=52) and a sample draw... see more

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Jungsun Kim,Mikael Ahlgren,Bo Bernhard

The purpose of this study was to address the mediational role of depression in the association between superstitions and problem gambling and to test whether this mediating process is significantly different between Chinese and Caucasian Americans. Eight ... see more

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Monica J. Barratt,Michael Livingston,Sharon Matthews,Susan L. Clemens

Local environment plays an important role in understanding gambling as a public health issue. This study uses help-seeking as an outcome measure for a local area analysis of problem gambling in Victoria, Australia. We used a cross-sectional ecological des... see more

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Stephanie Bramley,Nicola Dibben,Richard Rowe

Background music can influence everyday behaviour. We examined the influence of music tempo and genre on roulette. Fast tempo and popular music resulted in quicker betting with no effect on expenditure. Subjective arousal did not mediate music tempo's eff... see more

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N. Will Shead,Jeffrey L. Derevensky,Thomas S. Paskus

Two large samples of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) student-athletes in 2004 (N = 18,916) and 2008 (N = 17,675) were surveyed about their gambling behavior. A cross-comparison highlighted gambling trends among college-student athletes acr... see more

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Kimberly A. Calderwood,Anne Rajesparam

Two competing models of understanding concerned significant others (CSOs) of people with addictions have emerged: codependency (CD) and stress-coping. In the context of CSOs of problem gamblers, some research has begun to examine the effectiveness of the ... see more

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