TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychopathogical status and personality correlates of problem gambling severity in sports bettors undergoing treatment for gambling disorder
AU - Jiménez-Murcia, Susana
AU - Giménez, Mónica
AU - Granero, Roser
AU - López-González, Hibai
AU - Gómez-Peña, Mónica
AU - Moragas, Laura
AU - Baenas, Isabel
AU - Del Pino-Gutiérrez, Amparo
AU - Codina, Ester
AU - Mena-Moreno, Teresa
AU - Valenciano-Mendoza, Eduardo
AU - Mora-Maltas, Bernat
AU - Valero-Solís, Susana
AU - Rivas-Pérez, Sandra
AU - Guillén-Guzmán, Elías
AU - Menchón, José M
AU - Fernández-Aranda, Fernando
PY - 2021/3/2
Y1 - 2021/3/2
N2 - Background and aims: Sports betting has been barely explored independently from other gambling behaviors. Little evidence is available regarding the factors affecting its severity in a clinical sample. The current study explores new determinants for sports betting severity in Spain by the inclusion of psychopathological distress and personality factors.Methods: A sample of 352 Spanish sports bettors undergoing treatment for gambling disorder was recruited. Multiple regression models were used to evaluate the effects of sociodemographic variables, the age of onset of gambling behavior, the global psychopathological distress (SCL-90R GSI) and the personality profile (TCI-R) on sports betting severity and their influence over frequency (bets per episode) and debts due to gambling.Results: We found that older age, higher psychopathological distress, lower self-directedness level, and higher novelty seeking level were predictors of gambling severity in Spanish sports bettors. The highest betting frequency was found in men, with the lowest education levels but the highest social status, the highest psychopathological distress, reward dependence score, and self-transcendence trait and the lowest persistence score. Debts were also associated to higher score in cooperativeness as well as older age.Discussion and conclusions: Our findings call for further exploration of factors affecting sports betting severity regarded as a separate gambling entity subtype, as some of the traditional factors typically found in gamblers do not apply to sports bettors or apply inversely in our country. Consequently, sports bettors might deserve specific clinical approaches to tackle the singularities of their gambling behavior.
AB - Background and aims: Sports betting has been barely explored independently from other gambling behaviors. Little evidence is available regarding the factors affecting its severity in a clinical sample. The current study explores new determinants for sports betting severity in Spain by the inclusion of psychopathological distress and personality factors.Methods: A sample of 352 Spanish sports bettors undergoing treatment for gambling disorder was recruited. Multiple regression models were used to evaluate the effects of sociodemographic variables, the age of onset of gambling behavior, the global psychopathological distress (SCL-90R GSI) and the personality profile (TCI-R) on sports betting severity and their influence over frequency (bets per episode) and debts due to gambling.Results: We found that older age, higher psychopathological distress, lower self-directedness level, and higher novelty seeking level were predictors of gambling severity in Spanish sports bettors. The highest betting frequency was found in men, with the lowest education levels but the highest social status, the highest psychopathological distress, reward dependence score, and self-transcendence trait and the lowest persistence score. Debts were also associated to higher score in cooperativeness as well as older age.Discussion and conclusions: Our findings call for further exploration of factors affecting sports betting severity regarded as a separate gambling entity subtype, as some of the traditional factors typically found in gamblers do not apply to sports bettors or apply inversely in our country. Consequently, sports bettors might deserve specific clinical approaches to tackle the singularities of their gambling behavior.
U2 - 10.1556/2006.2020.00101
DO - 10.1556/2006.2020.00101
M3 - Article
C2 - 33683220
JO - Journal of Behavioral Addictions
JF - Journal of Behavioral Addictions
SN - 2062-5871
ER -