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Number Vol 34: Winter 2016 Year 2016

13 articles in this issue 

 

Editorial: Announcing the Winner of the Inaugural JGI Scholar’s Award for Research Excellence (Category B: Cognitive, Developmental, Biobehavioral, and Neuroimaging Research) Éditorial : Annonce du gagnant de la bourse inaugurale JGI pour l... see more

 

Per Binde

It is well-known that severe problem gambling may lead to economic crime. This study explored a particular type of such criminality: embezzlement committed by problem gamblers in the workplace. The aim was to gain knowledge about the extent of such crimin... see more

 

Richard R. Massatti,Sanford Starr,Stacey Frohnapfel-Hasson,Nick Martt

Historically, the scope of legalized gambling was limited in Ohio, but everything changed when a new constitutional amendment allowed four casinos to open. To better understand the impact of gambling expansion, a household survey was commissioned to deter... see more

 

Julie Pattinson,Adrian Parke

Gambling participation among older adults aged 65 and above has increased in Great Britain. However, there is limited research and therefore understanding about cognitive and behavioural patterns of gambling for this demographic. The objective of this stu... see more

 

Harriet Radermacher,Marissa Dickins,Christopher Anderson,Susan Feldman

Despite Australia being a multicultural country, there is limited evidence regarding ethnic perspectives about gambling, problem gambling, and associated help seeking. The aim of this paper is to examine the role and nature of stigma in relation to gambli... see more

 

Amanda Hudson,Bunmi O. Olatunji,Karen Gough,Sunghwan Yi,Sherry H. Stewart

Disordered gambling is characterized by persistent and problematic gambling, leading to impairment or distress, which may be exacerbated by vigilance to gambling cues in the environment. Yet, questions regarding the specific attentional biases present in ... see more

 

Morgann Stiles,Amanda Hudson,Cynthia Ramasubbu,Susan Ames,Sunghwan Yi,Karen Gough,Sherry H. Stewart

Outcome expectancies (OEs), or beliefs about the consequences of engaging in a particular behaviour, are important predictors of addictive behaviours. In Study 1 of the present work, we assessed whether memory associations between gambling and positive ou... see more

 

Tara Elisa Hahmann

Cognitive distortions are said to play a key role in the development and maintenance of problem gambling, as well as in its treatment. Toneatto’s (1999, 2002) typology of gambling distortions provides a useful conceptualization of gambling-related cogniti... see more

 

Jessica McBride,Jeffrey Derevensky

Gambling and video game playing represent two leisure activities in which adolescents and young adults participate. There are psychological and behavioural parallels between some forms of gambling (e.g., slot machines, video lottery terminals, electronic ... see more

 

Sean P. Mackinnon,Laura Lambe,Sherry H. Stewart H. Stewart

At least three types of gambling motives have been proposed: coping motives (gambling to reduce negative affect), enhancement motives (gambling to enhance positive affect), and social motives (gambling to increase social affiliation). Few studies have exa... see more

 

Marcus Juodis,Sherry H. Stewart

Pathological gamblers vary in their personality traits, psychopathological characteristics, and motivations for gambling. Methods for classifying them according to disseminated subtyping schemes, however, are not readily available, which may hinder furthe... see more

 

Hannah Briony Thorne,Belinda Goodwin,Erika Langham,Matthew Rockloff,Judy Rose

The aim of the current study was to examine the different EGM environmental preferences of recreational compared to problem gamblers in Australia. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 59 EGM gamblers recruited from EGM venues in Queensland and N... see more