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Young Adults with Gambling Problems: The Impact of Childhood Maltreatment

Authors: Jennifer R. Felsher, Jeffrey L. Derevensky, Rina Gupta

Published in: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction | Issue 4/2010

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Childhood maltreatment has been thought to be a significant risk factor in the development of gambling problems. Incorporating a developmental psychopathology perspective, 1,324 adolescents and young adults, age 17–22 years completed self-report measures on gambling behaviors, gambling severity, and childhood maltreatment. Problem gamblers reported high levels of childhood maltreatment as compared with non gamblers and social gamblers. The results highlight the inter-relationship between multiple types of childhood abuse and gambling severity and are consistent with Jacobs’ General Theory of Addictions and Blaszczynski and Nower’s Pathways Model. The importance of routine assessments for childhood trauma, in addition to other psychological disorders and co-morbid addictive beahviors in individuals presenting with a gambling disorder may well facilitate more effective treatment strategies.

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Title: Young Adults with Gambling Problems: The Impact of Childhood Maltreatment
Authors: Jennifer R. Felsher
Jeffrey L. Derevensky
Rina Gupta
Publication date: 01-10-2010
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction / Issue 4/2010
Print ISSN: 1557-1874
Electronic ISSN: 1557-1882
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-009-9230-4

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