Identifying the Relationship Between Mental Health Symptoms, Problem Behaviors and Gambling Among Adolescents

Richard, Jérémie; Derevensky, Jeffrey L.

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“…Gambling disorder in adults is associated with deleterious consequences including financial problems, academic impairment, social conflict, psychological distress, risk for suicide attempts and completion, and relationship difficulties (Blinn-Pike et al, 2010;Delfabbro, Lahn, & Grabosky, 2006;Derevensky & Gupta, 2000;Neighbors, Lostutter, Cronce, & Larimer, 2002;Weinstock, Whelan, & Meyers, 2008). For a review of prevalence rates and mental health disorders frequently comorbid with gambling problems, see Shaffer and Korn (2002) and Richard and Derevensky (2017). Adult gambling problems are robustly predicted by patterns of childhood and adolescent gambling (Carbonneau, Vitaro, Brendgen, & Tremblay, 2015;Derevensky et al, 2003).…”

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The Personality Context of Adolescent Gambling: Better Explained by the Big Five or Sensation-Seeking?

Reardon

Wang

Neighbors

et al. 2018

J Psychopathol Behav Assess

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Adolescent gambling is a serious and increasingly common problem. Studies in adults have found several within-and between-person associations between personality and gambling. We aim to extend these findings to a sample of adolescents selected for gambling behavior. Participants consisted of a racially diverse sample of adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17 (n = 227). We collected self-reported information on normal-range personality traits, sensation-seeking, and gambling frequency, severity, and motives in an online survey. Normal-range personality traits were not correlated with gambling, but trait sensation-seeking was positively correlated with gambling. Latent class analyses showed that classes of adolescent gamblers may be differentiated based on personality trait patterns, although these classes were not differentiated on gambling severity or frequency. Finally, in hierarchical analyses, six homogenous components representing the five normal-range personality traits and sensation-seeking accounted for maximum variance in gambling outcomes. In this model, components representing sensation-seeking and conscientiousness were the only significant unique predictors of gambling-related outcomes. Our findings suggest that subgroups of adolescent gamblers may be distinguished based on personality trait patterns before the emergence of problematic gambling. In other words, personality differences may reflect an early predisposition to divergent pathways to adolescent gambling. Our findings concur with previous work and underscore the importance of sensation-seeking as a particularly important risk factor of initiation and escalation of adolescent gambling.

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The Personality Context of Adolescent Gambling: Better Explained by the Big Five or Sensation-Seeking?

Reardon

Wang

Neighbors

et al. 2018

J Psychopathol Behav Assess

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“…As for DS, these typically include symptoms associated with major depressive disorder such as low mood, anhedonia, and feelings of worthlessness (APA, 2013;Dean & Keshavan, 2017;Rapee et al, 2019). Empirically, both CP and DS have been associated with PG (Giralt et al, 2018;Richard & Derevensky, 2017;Sagoe et al, 2017) and PVG (M€ uller et al, 2015;Myrseth & Notelaers, 2018), with the presence of both CP and DS rendering youth at an even greater risk of addiction later in life (Giralt et al, 2018;Jessor & Jessor, 1977;Khoddam, Jackson, & Leventhal, 2016;Strittmatter et al, 2015;Wiesner, Kim, & Capaldi, 2005).…”

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Conduct problems and depressive symptoms in association with problem gambling and gaming: A systematic review

Richard

Fletcher

Boutin

et al. 2020

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Background and aimsBehavioral addictions such as gambling and gaming disorder are significant public health issues that are of increasing importance to policy makers and health care providers. Problem gambling and gaming behaviors have been identified as being associated with externalizing and internalizing problems, with theoretical models suggesting that both conduct problems and depressive symptoms may be significant risk factors in the development of problem gambling and gaming. As such, the purpose of this systematic review is to provide an overview of research identifying the relationship between conduct problems, depressive symptoms and problem gambling and gaming among adolescents and young adults.MethodsSystematic literature searches in accordance with PRISMA guidelines found 71 eligible studies that met the inclusion criteria, 47 for problem gambling, 23 for problem gaming and one for both problem behaviors.ResultsBased on cross-sectional evidence, both problem gambling and gaming are consistently concurrently associated with conduct problems and depressive symptoms. Longitudinal evidence appears to be clearer for conduct problems as a risk factor for problem gambling, and depressive symptoms as a risk factor for problem gaming. However, both risk factors appear to increase the risk for these problem behaviors.Discussion and ConclusionsResults from the literature review suggest that problem gambling and gaming are associated with the presence of conduct problems and depressive symptoms, with the potential of sharing common etiological factors. Additional research is necessary to confirm these longitudinal relationships with an emphasis on investigating the interaction of both early conduct problems and depressive symptoms.

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“…Second, the group of adolescents exhibiting multi-problem behaviours that included problem gambling was characterized by higher levels of depressive symptoms compared to the group with multi-problem behaviours but without gambling. This discovery is not surprising, as approximately 38% of all pathological gamblers fulfil the criteria for mood disorders (Lorains et al, 2011;Richard & Derevensky, 2017). However, to our knowledge, this study is the first to highlight the importance of problem gambling in relation to other externalizing behaviours when identifying adolescents with mental health problems.…”

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“…However, given the lack of difference in depressive symptoms between the MODERATE-HIGH with GAMBLING and HIGH risk groups, our study highlights the fact that problem gambling might play a stronger role in the development of mental health problems than other risk behaviours, such as alcohol and antisocial behaviour. Many studies have pointed out a comorbidity between alcohol use (e.g., Danzo et al, 2017), antisocial behaviour (McGrath & Barrett, 1994), smoking (Leventhal et al, 2016), gambling (Richard & Derevensky, 2017), and mental health problems. The present study adds that the risk of depressive symptoms differs in adolescents who show varying patterns of multi-problem behaviours, suggesting that problem gambling might be more important than other risk behaviours, such as daily smoking.…”

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Problem gambling, risk behaviours, and mental health in adolescence: A person oriented study

Giannotta

Åslund

Hellström

et al. 2022

JGI

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Adolescent gambling is becoming a public health problem. While comorbidities with other externalizing behaviours have been ascertained, few studies focus on adolescents with a multi-problem behaviour pattern, i.e., alcohol and tobacco use, in addition to antisocial behaviour, which includes problem gambling. The purpose of this study was to identify adolescents with multi-problem behaviours, i.e., alcohol abuse, daily smoking, antisocial behaviour, and problem gambling and to investigate the differences in relation to gender. Unlike most studies on this topic, we adopted a person-oriented approach to identify groups of adolescent boys and girls who reported multi-problem risk behaviours, i.e., alcohol abuse, daily smoking, antisocial behaviour, and problem gambling. Moreover, we explored to what extent these adolescents exhibited mental health problems, i.e., depressive, psychosomatic, and ADHD symptoms, as well as sleep problems. The sample consisted of 1,526 adolescents from two age cohorts, 15- to 16-year-olds (n = 711, 47%) and 17- to 18-year-olds (n = 815, 53%). Latent Variable Mixture Modeling (LVMM) revealed one group with low rates of all risk behaviours and three groups with multi-problem behaviours. Among the latter three groups, two reported problem gambling and had higher levels of mental health problems. These results suggest that gambling can be added to the constellation of risk behaviours in adolescence and might be more associated with mental health problems than other externalizing behaviours.

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Identifying the Relationship Between Mental Health Symptoms, Problem Behaviors and Gambling Among Adolescents

Cited by 9 publications

References 32 publications

The Personality Context of Adolescent Gambling: Better Explained by the Big Five or Sensation-Seeking?

The Personality Context of Adolescent Gambling: Better Explained by the Big Five or Sensation-Seeking?

Conduct problems and depressive symptoms in association with problem gambling and gaming: A systematic review

Problem gambling, risk behaviours, and mental health in adolescence: A person oriented study

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