Youth at Stake: Alexithymia, Cognitive Distortions, and Problem Gambling in Late Adolescents

Cosenza, Marina; Baldassarre, Ivana; Matarazzo, Olimpia; Nigro, Giovanna

doi:10.1007/s12559-014-9274-z

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“…Previous studies have found that youth problem gamblers, even if they have an intact knowledge of mathematical rules and probability, tend to rely on rapid and economic reasoning that lead to systematic errors of assessment (Cosenza et al, 2014;Cosenza & Nigro, 2015;Delfabbro et al, 2006).…”

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Decision-Making, Cognitive Distortions and Alcohol Use in Adolescent Problem and Non-problem Gamblers: An Experimental Study

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In the psychological literature, many studies have investigated the neuropsychological and behavioral changes that occur developmentally during adolescence. These studies have consistently observed a deficit in the decision-making ability of children and adolescents. This deficit has been ascribed to incomplete brain development. The same deficit has also been observed in adult problem and pathological gamblers. However, to date, no study has examined decision-making in adolescents with and without gambling problems. Furthermore, no study has ever examined associations between problem gambling, decision-making, cognitive distortions and alcohol use in youth. To address these issues, 104 male adolescents participated in this study. They were equally divided in two groups, problem gamblers and non-problem gamblers, based on South Oaks Gambling Screen Revised for Adolescents scores. All participants performed the Iowa Gambling Task and completed the Gambling Related Cognitions Scale and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. Adolescent problem gamblers displayed impaired decision-making, reported high cognitive distortions, and had more problematic alcohol use compared to non-problem gamblers. Strong correlations between problem gambling, alcohol use, and cognitive distortions were observed. Decision-making correlated with interpretative bias. This study demonstrated that adolescent problem gamblers appear to have the same psychological profile as adult problem gamblers and that gambling involvement can negatively impact on decisionmaking ability that, in adolescence, is still developing. The correlations between interpretative bias and decision-making suggested that the beliefs in the ability to influence gambling outcomes may facilitate decisionmaking impairment.

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“…They found that problem gamblers, despite having a good understanding of probabilities, were more confident in the possibility of influencing chance-determined events. More recently, cognitive distortions have been found to be strong predictor of youth gambling problems (Cosenza et al, 2014;Cosenza & Nigro, 2015).…”

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Decision-Making, Cognitive Distortions and Alcohol Use in Adolescent Problem and Non-problem Gamblers: An Experimental Study

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“…A recent review on the prevalence of adolescent problem gambling across five continents reported that 0.2–12.3% of youth meet diagnostic criteria for problem gambling (Calado et al, 2016). In spite of gambling is an illegal activity in Italy under the age of 18, some studies on Italian adolescents have found that 16–17% of high school students were at-risk of developing problem gambling, and 7–8% problem gamblers (Chiesi et al, 2013; Cosenza et al, 2014; Cosenza and Nigro, 2015). …”

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“…This is even more surprising since several studies have highlighted that adolescents represent a high vulnerable population and research has demonstrated that, other things being equal, severe gambling-related difficulties in adulthood steam from early gambling problems (Blinn-Pike et al, 2010; Volberg et al, 2010; Olason et al, 2011; Cosenza et al, 2014; Gupta and Derevensky, 2014). …”

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The Blurred Future of Adolescent Gamblers: Impulsivity, Time Horizon, and Emotional Distress

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The main purpose of this study was to investigate the interplay of functional and dysfunctional impulsivity, delay discounting, time perspective, and emotional negative states on gambling severity in Italian adolescents. A second aim of the study was to analyze the developmental trajectories of gambling involvement, functional and dysfunctional impulsivity, delay discounting, consideration of future consequences, and negative affectivity in a cross-sectional perspective. One thousand and ten Italian adolescents aging between 12 and 19 years were administered the South Oaks Gambling Screen Revised for Adolescents (SOGS-RA), the Functional and Dysfunctional Impulsivity Scale (FDIS), the Monetary Choice Questionnaire (MCQ), the Consideration of Future Consequences Scale (CFC-14), and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales-21 (DASS-21). Data analyses were conducted using correlational analysis, Chi-square test, analysis of variance, and hierarchical regression analysis. Results indicated that, relative to non-gamblers and non-problem gamblers, at-risk and problem gamblers showed higher levels of impulsivity, steeper delay discounting, shorter time horizon, and reported experiencing significantly higher levels of depression, anxiety, and stress. Results of hierarchical regression analysis, with SOGS-RA scores as the dependent variable, and gender, age, FDIS, MCQ, CFC-14, and DASS-21 scores as independent variables, indicated that, along with gender and age, low scores of future orientation and high scores of dysfunctional impulsivity, depression, anxiety, present orientation, and delay discounting significantly predicted gambling severity. These findings provide further evidence that the higher the gambling involvement, the greater the tendency to devalue delayed rewards and to focus on the immediate consequences of one's behavior. Interestingly, for the first time these results reveal an association between gambling severity and both dysfunctional impulsivity and negative affective states across adolescence. Finally, results of cross-sectional analyses suggest that gambling severity contributes more than age in shaping the developmental trajectories of functional and dysfunctional impulsivity, delay discounting, time perspective, and negative affective states.

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“…It starts with the article of Carl Vogel [26, p. 1], which discusses the perception of linguistic impoliteness and argues that impolite behaviors ''arise from offence management associated with disgust.'' The contributions of Olimpia Matarazzo et al [13], Marina Cosenza et al [4] and Francesca D'Errico and Isabella Poggi [5] are an attempt to explain human emotional conducts under psychological states produced by positive and/or negative contextual instances, psychological disorders (such as alexithymia) and ''acid'' conflictual interactions, respectively. The next two articles report data showing that communicative behaviors are affected by the social instance.…”

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Modeling Emotion, Behavior and Context in Socially Believable Robots and ICT Interfaces

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The modeling and implementation of sophisticated multimodal software/hardware interfaces is a current scientific challenge of high societal relevance. The main characteristics entailed by these interfaces are being able to interact with people, inferring social, organizational and physical contexts based on sensed data, assisting people with special needs, enhancing elderly health-care assistance, learning and rehabilitation in daily functional activities. Implementing such Human Computer Interaction (HCI) systems is of public utility and profitable for a living science that should simplify user's accesses to a wide range of social services, either remotely or in a person-to-person setting.The current and future applications foreseen in this highly interdisciplinary field are countless: among these are featured context-aware avatars and robotic devices replacing and/or acting on behalf of humans in high responsibility tasks or time-critical dangerous tasks such as urban emergencies. Other emerging applications concern robot companions for elderly and vulnerable people and intelligent agents for services where there is a shortage of suitable skills or otherwise there is a request of significant investments in training-qualified personnel such as in therapist-based interventions. Given the complexities required by these automated tasks, the approach for developing such devices has to account for a holistic investigation perspective. New cognitive architectures must be foreseen and new cognitive integrations must be exploited in order to take advantage of the knowledge derived from the analysis of human behaviors across different contexts.At the stake, there is the need to develop a deep understanding of the emotional and intentional cognitive processes underpinning human interactions. Inherently new insights must be deployed for designing complex-autonomous systems, which are required to be able to feel human emotional and intentional states; cooperatively adapt to them through a socially ethical and sensible conduct; and exhibit coherent vocal, visual and gestural affordances.The present Special Issue investigates these topics, by gathering new experimental data and theories across a spectrum of disciplines, in order to identify the metastructures underlying these phenomena. This effort hopefully will stimulate, on the one hand, the conception of new mathematical models for representing data, reasoning and learning. On the other hand, it will produce new psychological and computational approaches with respect to the existing cognitive frameworks and algorithmic solutions.Enabling a consistent progress toward the implementation of a human automaton level of intelligence is crucial for developing such HCI systems and enhancing the quality of life of people addressing their current and future societal needs.The topics proposed by the present special issue are interdisciplinary and cover issues related to several areas of research. Let us report them: behavioral analysis of interactions; mathematical models for repre...

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Youth at Stake: Alexithymia, Cognitive Distortions, and Problem Gambling in Late Adolescents

Cited by 24 publications

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Decision-Making, Cognitive Distortions and Alcohol Use in Adolescent Problem and Non-problem Gamblers: An Experimental Study

Decision-Making, Cognitive Distortions and Alcohol Use in Adolescent Problem and Non-problem Gamblers: An Experimental Study

The Blurred Future of Adolescent Gamblers: Impulsivity, Time Horizon, and Emotional Distress

Modeling Emotion, Behavior and Context in Socially Believable Robots and ICT Interfaces

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