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Personality disorders among pathological gamblers

Blaszczynski, Alex, Steel, Zachary·1998·Journal of Gambling Studies

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The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of DSM-III-R diagnostic categories of personality disorders in pathological gamblers and to highlight the possible association between such disorders, psychological distress and selected forms of gambling. The Personality Disorders Questionnaire-Revised and a battery of psychometric measures were administered to a sample of 82 consecutive admissions to a behavioral treatment program for gambling problems at an impulse control disorders research unit in Sydney, Australia. Seventy-three percent of subjects were male. The total sample reported having gambled a mean of 15 years of which, on average, the last 6.4 years were associated with problems. Results indicated that the majority of subjects met diagnostic criteria for at least one Personality Disorder (93%), with an average of 4.6 personality disorders per subject. The majority of gamblers evidenced personality disorders from the Cluster B grouping with particularly high rates of borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic personality disorders which were found to be associated with high levels of impulsivity and affective instability. Antisocial personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder were both found to be possible mediators of the severity of the problem gambling behaviours.

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  • Comorbid mental health disorders in disordered gambling are associated with increased gambling severity, urges, cognitions, consequences, psychiatric symptoms, impulsivity, and other psychosocial difficulties.

    “Comorbid mental health disorders in disordered gambling are associated with increased gambling severity, gambling urges and cognitions, gambling-related consequences, psychiatric symptoms, impulsivity, and other psychosocial difficulties (Blaszczynski & McConaghy, 1994;Blaszczynski & Steel, 1998;Blaszczynski, Steel, & McConaghy, 1997;Grall-Bronnec et al., 2011;Kruedelbach et al., 2006;Ledgerwood &”

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Authors
Blaszczynski, A., & Steel, Z.
Affiliations
  • Liverpool Hospital (AU)
  • UNSW Sydney (AU)
Venue
Journal of Gambling Studies
Published
1998-03
Volume
14
Issue
1
Pages
51-71
ISSN
  • 1050-5350 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-3602
OpenAlex
W1608427399
Cited by
143
References
43
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 10
FWCI
2.05
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Gambling Studies (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Gambling Behavior and Treatments
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
Keywords
personality disorders, gambling addiction, problem gambling, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, impulsivity, neuroticism, psychological distress, gambling severity, cluster B personality disorders

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