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(Universitat de Barcelona) (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge) (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge) (Nottingham Trent University) (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge)| Date: | 2025 |
| Description: | 12 pàg. |
| Abstract: | BACKGROUND: There is a consensus in the literature that gambling advertising disproportionately affects those experiencing higher gambling severity. However, the relationship of gambling advertising and severity is typically assessed among samples recruited from online panels using screening tools as the method to categorize the gambling severity status of participants. Alternatively, other studies use small groups of gamblers (i. e. , qualitative studies). The present paper reports findings from a sample of gamblers diagnosed with gambling disorder by professional clinicians via individual interviews. The study investigated the association between gambling advertising and gambling severity by looking at other psychologically relevant variables such as impulsivity, emotion regulation, and general psychopathology. METHODS: A sample of 210 consecutive treatment-seeking patients was recruited from a public hospital from June 2019 to January 2021. A path analysis model was run to determine the relationship between the variables. Gambling advertising was constructed as a latent variable, comprising the perceived impact of gambling advertising, persuasion knowledge, and the attitudes towards gambling advertising. RESULTS: Gamblers with greater gambling severity reported higher perceived impact of gambling advertising, and more positive attitudes toward gambling advertising. Gambling advertising was a mediator in the paths between emotion regulation and gambling severity, and between impulsivity and gambling severity. CONCLUSION: The study demonstrates among individuals with verified gambling disorder that there is a relationship between gambling advertising and gambling severity. Regulators have an empirical basis on which to restrict the exposure to gambling advertising of vulnerable groups. |
| Grants: | Agencia Estatal de Investigación PID2021-124887OB-I00 Instituto de Salud Carlos III DTS22/00072 European Commission 101080219 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2021/SGR-00824 Instituto de Salud Carlos III FORT23/00032 |
| Note: | Altres ajuts: The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research and/or publication of this article. We thank CERCA Programme/ Generalitat de Catalunya for guarante institutional support. This manuscript and research was supported by grants from Plan Nacional sobre Drogas Convocatoria de subvenciones para proyectos de investigación financiados con fondos europeos 2022 (EXP2022/008847) and cofounded by FEDER (funds/European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), a way to build Europe). CIBERObn is an initiative of ISCIII. HL-G was supported by the Beatriu de Pinos programme of the Secretariat for Universities and Research of the Department of Business and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia (grant number 2017 BP 00035). RG and FFA were supported by ICREA Academia (2021 and 2024, respectively). |
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| Language: | Anglès |
| Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
| Subject: | Gambling advertising ; Gambling disorder ; Path analysis ; Clinical setting ; Impulsivity ; Emotion regulation |
| Published in: | Frontiers in psychology, Vol. 16 (2025) , art. 1523906, ISSN 1664-1078 |
