The Role of Memory Associations in Excessive and Problem Gambling

Journal of gambling issues

Sunghwan Yi¹  Amanda Hudson¹  Cynthia Ramasubbu¹  Morgann Stiles¹  Karen Gough¹  Sherry H. Stewart¹  Susan Ames¹ 

关键词: explicit cognitions;   

DOI  :  10.4309/jgi.2016.34.7

学科分类：内科医学

来源: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (C A M H)

【 摘 要 】

Abstract Outcome expectancies (OEs), or beliefs about the consequences of engaging in a particular behaviour, are important predictors of addictive behaviours. In Study 1 of the present work, we assessed whether memory associations between gambling and positive outcomes are related to excessive and problem gambling. The Gambling Behaviour Outcome Association Task (G-BOAT) was administered to a sample of 96 community-recruited gamblers. On the G-BOAT, participants responded to a list of positive outcome phrases with the first two behaviours that came to mind. Those with more problematic gambling (as measured on the Problem Gambling Severity Index) and greater gambling involvement (as measured by time and money spent gambling on the Gambling Timeline Followback) responded to positive outcome phrases on the G-BOAT with more gambling-related responses. In Study 2, we administered G-BOAT to a community-recruited sample of 61 gamblers, who also completed a computerized reaction time measure of implicit gambling...

【 授权许可】

Unknown