Defining the online gambler and patterns of behaviour integration: evidence from the British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2010

Wardle, Heather; Moody, Alison; Griffiths, Mark D.; Orford, Jim; Volberg, Rachel A.

doi:10.1080/14459795.2011.628684

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“…One area of life where there are tangible costs and benefits is in gambling situations, which in recent years has become increasingly popular in society (Wardle et al, 2011), especially following the liberalisation of gambling laws (e.g., in the UK, Gambling Act, 2005). The majority of people who gamble do so for pleasure and are restrained in their behaviour; that is, they wage only what they can afford to lose and they know, quite literally, when to stop.…”

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Pause for Thought: Response Perseveration and Personality in Gambling

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Thompson

2013

J Gambl Stud

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. and the opportunity to make the next bet --this pause also had an overall main effect of improving RP and reducing losses. As related research shows that such a pause normalises the RP deficit seen in pathological gamblers, these findings hold potentially valuable implications for informing practice in the prevention and treatment of pathological gambling, and point to the role played by individual differences in approach motivation. Permanent repository link:

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Section: Response Perseveration and Personality In Gamblingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pause for Thought: Response Perseveration and Personality in Gambling

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Thompson

2013

J Gambl Stud

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“…Firstly, the authors claimed in the 'Discussion' section that changes in the rate of problem gambling in Great Britain as reported in the BGPS have been "minimal" over time. However, the rate of problem gambling increased 50% between the 2007 study (Wardle, et al, 2007) and the 2011 study as measured by the DSM-IV (Wardle, et al, 2011). This was a statistically significant increase in the rate of problem gambling.…”

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“…One of the most notable findings in the Sharman et al (2014) study -and on which there was no comment -was the fact that 80% of the 456 homeless people (n = 363) had not gambled in the year prior to the study (i.e., only 20% of the sample were gamblers). In the British population, most recent British Gambling Prevalence Survey (BGPS) reported that only 27% had not gambled in the previous year (i.e., 73% of the British population had gambled) (Wardle et al, 2011). This suggests that homeless people as a whole group generally do not gamble.…”

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“…On a minor note, the seminal researcher Sheila Blume (co-developer of the South Oaks Gambling Screen [Lesieur & Blume, 1987] -one of the most widely used screens in the gambling studies field -was cited as 'Bloom' not 'Blume'). Additionally, the authors kept citing the most recent British Gambling Prevalence Survey as being published in 2010 when in fact it was 2011 (Wardle et al, 2011).…”

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“…More specifically, the results of a survey of 456 homeless people accessing homeless services in Westminster showed a problem gambling rate of 11.6% amongst the homeless population, as opposed to a figure of less than 1% in the British general population in the British Gambling Prevalance Survey (Wardle, Moody, et al, 2011) -0.9% using the DSM-IV criteria for pathological gambling (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) and 0.7% using the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI: Ferris & Wynne, 2001). Overall, the results of Sharman et al (2014) study reported that 11.6% problem gamblers.…”

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The Relationship Between Gambling and Homelessness: A Commentary on Sharman et al. (2014)

Griffiths

2014

J Gambl Stud

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The relationship between problem gambling and homelessness is a little studied area in the gambling studies field. A recent study in the Journal of Gambling Studies by Sharman, Dreyer, et al (2014) is the first quantitative study in Great Britain on this interesting and important topic. In this context, the study is to be commended and provides an empirical benchmark on which other studies can build. The study reported a problem gambling prevalence rate of 11.6% and is significantly higher than the problem gambling rate of the general population in Great Britain (which is less than 1%). However, given the political sensitivity surrounding the expansion of bookmakers in the UK, the study needs further contextualization otherwise the findings of such studies may be used by anti-gambling lobby groups to serve their own political agendas. While it is good that such an area has been empirically investigated in Great Britain, this paper briefly (i) places the issue of problem gambling among the homeless into the wider context of problems among the homeless more generally (particularly in relation to mental health problems and other addictive behaviors), (ii) highlights some of the methodological problems and weaknesses of the study, and (iii) notes a number of factual errors made in the paper.

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