Understanding the Determinants of Gambling-Related Intimate Partner Violence: Perspectives From Women Who Gamble

O’Mullan, Catherine; Hing, Nerilee; Mainey, Lydia; Nuske, Elaine; Breen, Helen

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“…A gender-based perspective may help to shift gambling research beyond its predominantly situational violence perspective that assumes that all DFV/IPV arises from escalating conflicts in relationships, to also recognize the use of power and control in violent relationships ( Bender, 2017 ). This shift is evident in some qualitative gambling research ( Hing et al, 2021 , 2022a , 2022b , 2022d , 2022c ; Banks and Waters, 2022 ; O’Mullan et al, 2022a ), but not in the quantitative measures used. Gambling research should examine IPV perpetrated by men against women, by women against men, and in same-sex relationships, using approaches and instruments that are sensitive to different conceptualizations, experiences, and reporting of violence in these contexts.…”

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“…In Suomi et al’s (2013) study, the 11 interviewees who had perpetrated violence against a family member reported that their violence was fueled by their accumulated anger and mistrust arising from the victim’s gambling. However, perpetrators’ explanations for their violence are unreliable, since they frequently use victim-blaming and external “causes” to justify their violence ( Henning and Holdford, 2006 ), including blaming the victim’s gambling ( Browne et al, 2016 ; Hing et al, 2020 ; O’Mullan et al, 2022a ). Nevertheless, problem gambling undoubtedly has deleterious effects on families.…”

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“…Where gambling precedes the violence, these accumulated tensions and emotions may trigger situational violence in direct response to the victim’s gambling ( Korman et al, 2008 ; Suomi et al, 2013 , 2019 ). However, the ANROWS study ( Hing et al, 2020 , 2022d ; O’Mullan et al, 2022a ) found that only a minority of the women interviewed first experienced IPV after they started gambling. Further, their subsequent victimization was not always limited to violent incidents that were an immediate response to their gambling, although these continued to occur.…”

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“…Recent findings are consistent with this earlier research. In the ANROWS study ( Hing et al, 2020 , 2022d ; O’Mullan et al, 2022a ), most women reported frequently experiencing severe and chronic violence from their partner, before they commenced gambling. These women reported gambling to gain physical escape from the violence, or psychological escape to cope with the resultant trauma, in a quest to regain some control over their lives, and to cope with the legacy of past abuse after separating from a violent partner ( Hing et al, 2022d ).…”

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“…In addition, gambling venues can be a refuge for escape, since they often provide highly accessible, comfortable, and female-friendly environments that have good security and long opening hours ( Brown and Coventry, 1997 ; Surgey, 2000 ; Thomas et al, 2009 , 2011a , 2011b ; Rintoul et al, 2017 ; Hing et al, 2017 ). In the ANROWS study, women escaping IPV reported being attracted to venues because of their social, geographic, and temporal accessibility, allowance for uninterrupted play on EGMs, and the addictive nature of EGMs ( Hing et al, 2020 , 2022d ; O’Mullan et al, 2022a ). The push factors that drove these women to try to escape their abuse, and the pull factors that attracted them to gambling venues, led to these women’s gambling problem.…”

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An integrative review of research on gambling and domestic and family violence: Fresh perspectives to guide future research

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This paper presents an integrative review of research on domestic and family violence (DFV), including intimate partner violence (IPV), experienced by victims and perpetrators with a gambling problem. It aims to review, critique, and synthesize research on this topic to generate fresh and alternative perspectives to guide future research. Based on a systematic search of the academic literature and a targeted search of gray literature, the paper summarizes findings from empirical studies pertaining to the prevalence of perpetration and victimization, characteristics of perpetrators and victims, and explanations for this violence. Based on this review, the paper suggests several potential improvements that can be considered in future studies. These include a shift from focusing on situational violence to also include coercive control; greater sensitivity in research design and interpretation to gender differences in experiences of violence; and the need to include economic abuse as a form of DFV/IPV. Adopting a public health lens is also recommended to broaden the research focus from victims and perpetrators to also consider contextual factors. In particular, gambling research should examine the contribution of gambling products, practices, environments, and marketing to DFV/IPV and how this might be ameliorated. While research to date has drawn much needed attention to the risks that gambling presents for DFV/IPV, this review provides some suggestions for future research so that it can provide more nuanced findings to inform policy and practice.

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Association Between Gambling Motives, Violence and Early Maladaptive Schemas in Women with Gambling Disorder

Estévez,

Jauregui,

Momeñe

et al. 2024

J Gambl Stud

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Analyzing why being a victim of violence has led women to have problems with gambling is a field yet to be explored. Thus, the objectives of the present study were (I) analyze the relationship between gambling motives, received psychological violence, and early maladaptive schemas in women; (II) study differences in the study variables in women with and without gambling disorder (GD); (III) analyze the predictive role of violence and schemas in gambling motives; and (IV) analyze the mediating role of schemas in the relationship between violence and gambling motives. The sample comprised 61 women with GD (M = 48.43, SD = 12.78) and 342 women without GD (M = 26.91, SD = 11.47). The results of the present study revealed positive correlations between gambling motives, psychological violence received and early maladaptive schemas. In addition, women with GD scored higher on the study variables. It was also found that early maladaptive schemas based on subjugation and defectiveness may be a vulnerability factor for engaging in gambling to cope with the negative emotions produced by gender violence. From a clinical perspective, knowing the risk factors related to gambling motives in women is crucial to developing effective prevention and intervention programs.

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Australia's gambling epidemic: The role of Covid‐19 support payment

Adabor

2023

Australian Economic Papers

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Covid‐19 exposed the whole world to numerous challenges ranging from health to economic recession. Nevertheless, it also impeded gambling activities. Here, we consider the relationship between Covid‐19 support payment and gambling. Gambling is considered leisure for many game players but leads to multiple social and economic harms. This has led to a growing body of literature examining the factors that influence gambling. This paper contributes to this strand of the literature by utilizing the ordinary least square and instrumental variable approach to investigate if Covid‐19 support payment is a driver of gambling. We utilize a wide range of gambling measures and different forms of Covid‐19 support payment. Our findings show that Covid‐19 support payment is positively associated with gambling. Our results also suggest a stronger effect for male gamblers and online gamblers compared to female gamblers and gamblers who gambled at the venue.

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Understanding the Determinants of Gambling-Related Intimate Partner Violence: Perspectives From Women Who Gamble

Cited by 4 publications

References 50 publications

An integrative review of research on gambling and domestic and family violence: Fresh perspectives to guide future research

An integrative review of research on gambling and domestic and family violence: Fresh perspectives to guide future research

Association Between Gambling Motives, Violence and Early Maladaptive Schemas in Women with Gambling Disorder

Australia's gambling epidemic: The role of Covid‐19 support payment

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