Online Gambling in Iranian Social Media Users: Prevalence, Related Variables and Psychiatric Correlations

Davoudi, Mohammadreza; Shirvani, Sheida; Foroughi, Aliakbar; Rajaeiramsheh, Fereshteh

doi:10.1007/s10899-021-10020-7

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“…23 Internet addiction: In this study, Yang Internet Addiction Questionnaire was used. This scale consists of 17 items on a five-point Likert scale from rarely (0) to always (5). Scores 0 to 30 show no internet addiction and normal user, scores 31 to 49 mild internet addiction, scores 50 to 79 moderate internet addiction, and scores 80 and above indicate severe internet addiction cut score.…”

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“…For example, in Iran, where gambling is only allowed for swimming and horseback riding, the online gambling rate is reported to be around 9%, while more than a quarter of the people involved experience varying degrees of gambling-related problems. 5 The results have shown that online gambling, like land-based gambling, is associated with great psychological problems. For instance, the levels of depression, anxiety, and gambling severity of online gamblers are similar to those of land-based gamblers.…”

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The Mediating Roles of Self-compassion and Emotion Regulation in the Relationship among Alexithymia, Gambling Frequency, Risky Decision-Making, and Gambling Severity in Online Gamblers

2023

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Background: The research literature about the relationship between alexithymia, risky decision-making, and gambling severity has been contradictory and limited. Besides, there is no study on the mediating roles of self-compassion and emotion regulation in online gambling. Moreover, the role of these mediators in gambling frequency has not been studied. Thus, the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between alexithymia, risky decision-making, and gambling frequency by considering the mediating role of self-compassion and emotion regulation in online gamblers. Methods: A total of 319 Iranians who gambled online at least once a week in the past three months were investigated using an online survey including Farsi Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 (FTAS-20), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), and Gambling Disorder Screening Questionnaire-Persian (GDSQ-P). Statistical analyses were conducted by SPSS 26.0 for Windows. The relationships between the variables were analyzed using correlation analysis. In cases where significant relationships were observed, the hypotheses of the regression model were tested. Findings: The mean age of the participants was 24.6±6.06 and 253 participants (73.9%) were male. Furthermore, no significant differences were observed between men and women in terms of risky decision-making (P=0.051), gambling severity (P=0.59), and age (P=0.293). Conclusion: Alexithymia had both a direct and indirect relationship with gambling severity through the mediating roles of emotion regulation and self-compassion. Moreover, alexithymia was significantly associated with risky decision-making and gambling frequency, through the mediating role of difficulties in emotion regulation, both directly and indirectly.

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The Mediating Roles of Self-compassion and Emotion Regulation in the Relationship among Alexithymia, Gambling Frequency, Risky Decision-Making, and Gambling Severity in Online Gamblers

2023

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“…This can lead to longer gambling sessions and higher expenses for gamblers (Lavoie & Main, 2019). Researchers have suggested that online gamblers are more likely to exhibit reckless decisions while gambling (Montes & Weatherly, 2017), and are younger than their offline counterparts (Davoudi et al, 2022). Additionally, Dufour and colleagues (2020), found that the severity of gambling problems among online gamblers was a significant predictor of their migration to offline gambling.…”

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Interpassive Gambling

Hoebanx¹,

French

2023

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Slot machines are recognized as a particularly risky form of gambling. However, there is a form of slot machine consumption that seems to have largely escaped the notice of regulators and scholars: the streaming of slot machine play on YouTube and other platforms. In this article, we present the results of our qualitative study of 21 slot machine videos. Our study examines how these videos portray gambling and how they align with the norms of YouTube’s platform economy. Our analysis underscores the representation of slot machine gambling in this under-regulated media, emphasizing different tactics of viewer manipulation. We introduce the concept of interpassive gambling to reflect the ways that user-generated videos are a form of diffusion of gambling mechanics beyond traditional gambling venues. We conclude by calling for more scholarly and regulatory attention to this gamblified site of media consumption.

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“…In a study entitled "Online Gambling in Iranian Social Media Users: Prevalence, Related Variables and Psychiatric Correlates", Davoudi (2021) found a positive and significant relationship between gambling and severity of Internet addiction, severity of depression, severity of anxiety and severity of obsession among online gamblers. However, no positive relationship was noted with paranoid ideation.…”

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Review of internet addiction and its relation with depression and anxiety

Khanlari

Naseri

2022

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This research investigates the relationship between Internet addiction and depression and anxiety. The method falls under review-descriptive categories, as it reviews the literature on Internet addiction over the last 15 years (from 2007 to July 2021). A review of the relationship between Internet addiction and depression is a subject of interest for many researchers who have conducted large number of studies on it. Interestingly, most studies done in this area correspond to each other and note a positive and significant relationship between Internet addiction and depressions, between online gambling and depression, between intense tendency to shop online and depression, and addiction to online games and depression. Other research has also considered depression to be predictor of Internet addiction, suggesting a positive two-way relationship between these two variables. However, out of these 7 scenarios, there was just one study that observed a negative and significant relationship between problematic use of the Internet and depression. Its population under study was composed of the elderly. In respect of the realtionshiop between Internet addiction and anxiety, there are many studies, also.

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Online Gambling in Iranian Social Media Users: Prevalence, Related Variables and Psychiatric Correlations

Cited by 7 publications

References 31 publications

The Mediating Roles of Self-compassion and Emotion Regulation in the Relationship among Alexithymia, Gambling Frequency, Risky Decision-Making, and Gambling Severity in Online Gamblers

The Mediating Roles of Self-compassion and Emotion Regulation in the Relationship among Alexithymia, Gambling Frequency, Risky Decision-Making, and Gambling Severity in Online Gamblers

Interpassive Gambling

Review of internet addiction and its relation with depression and anxiety

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