8 articles in this issue
Michael Cantinotti,Bernard-Simon Leclerc,Priscilla Brochu,Christian Jacques,Serge Sévigny,Isabelle Giroux
A view that is commonly held by Research Ethics Board members is that offering money as research compensation has the potential to unduly influence or even coerce subjects into participating in studies. Because money is the core resource of gambling activ... see more
Mark van der Maas
This study uses a large representative sample of gamblers in the Canadian province of Quebec to examine the relationship between social support and psychopathologies commonly associated with gambling problems. Generalized linear modeling is applied to the... see more
Edelgard Wulfert,Kristen Harris,James Broussard
Cigarette smoking is the most common addictive behaviour co-occurring with problem gambling. Based on classical conditioning, smoking and gambling cues may acquire conditioned stimulus properties that elicit cravings for both behaviours. This study examin... see more
Annie-Claude Savard,Daniel Turcotte,Joël Tremblay
This study describes the initial gambling experiences of teenagers who have developed problem gambling habits with regard to: a) the nature of the gambling activities, b) the significance of the first experience in terms of the benefits and attractive asp... see more
Helga Myrseth,Ståle Pallesen,Helge Molde,Odd E. Havik,Guy Notelaers
We examined psychopathology and personality characteristics among 62 pathological gamblers (49 men and 13 women; mean age 37.8 years), measured by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2). The mean MMPI-2 profile of the present sample of... see more
Isabelle Giroux,Francine Ferland,Cathy Savard,Christian Jacques,Priscilla Brochu,Dominic Nadeau,Philippe Landreville,Serge Sévigny
Gambling habits of people aged 55 years and over without gambling problems are rarely being investigated. In order to document life events and to identify the impacts of gambling on quality of life, 19 participants aged 55 to 74 years without gambling pro... see more
Hyoun S. Kim,Keith S. Dobson,David C. Hodgins
There has been an unprecedented growth of legalized gambling opportunities in Canada over the past two decades, partly to generate revenues without raising taxes. Unfortunately, for 2-3% of the Canadian population, gambling can become disordered (i.e. dev... see more
Seth W. Whiting,Rocco Giovanni Catrone,Amrinder Babbra
The present study examined the relationship between instant (scratch-off) lottery ticket price and "chasing losses" within a single gambling episode. Across several months, each time an instant lottery ticket was purchased (N = 1081), convenience store cl... see more