Gambling Motives, Attitudes, Behaviors, and Disorder among Chinese People

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	Gambling Motives, Attitudes, Behaviors, and Disorder among Chinese People
	Yu, M. S.; Wu, A. M. S.; Tong, K. K.; Tao, V. Y. K.; Chen, J. H.
	2015-05-01
Source Publication	Conference Program Book
Pages	66-66
Abstract	Objective: From the psychological perspective, whether an individual commits in gambling and gets addicted to it would be highly related to his/her needs and beliefs/attitudes, which are culture-variant. The Inventory of Gambling Motives, Attitudes and Behaviours (GMAB) was first developed in 2011 for assessing gambling-related cognitions and behaviors of Chinese gamblers. In this study, we used the revised version (GMAB-R) to explore the salient motivational, attitudinal, and behavioural correlates of gambling disorder among both Chinese adolescents and adults. Method: We randomly recruited 694 Chinese community adults by a telephone survey (the adult sample) and 809 high school students by a questionnaire survey in ten high schools (adolescent sample) in Macao. They responded to the six subscales of motives (self-worth, monetary gains, sensation seeking, boredom alleviation, learning, and socialization), four subscales of attitudes (fate and luck, negative consequences of gambling, techniques, and superstition), and five subscales of behaviours (impaired control, gambling involvement, arousal reaction, superstitious behaviour, and controlled gambling) of GMAB-R. The DSM-IV criteria (in adult sample) and SOGS (in adolescent sample) were used to assess participants’ gambling addiction severity. Significant findings: Correlation and regression analysis demonstrated that monetary gains, sensation seeking, superstition, impaired control, gambling involvement and superstitious behaviours are the salient factors of gambling addiction in Chinese adults. Monetary gain, superstition, impaired control, and gambling involvement are similar risk factors found among adolescents. Arousal reaction is another behavioural correlate of gambling addiction among adolescents. Implications: Motive of monetary gains and attitudes toward superstition were consistently associated with Chinese gamblers of different age groups and thus they should be particularly taken into account in both school- and community-based intervention programmes. For example, workshops of gambling and probability may help correcting irrational superstitions of gambling. Specific behavioral scales in GMAB-R may also be used as a screening tool for Chinese gambling addicts.
Keyword	gambling Chinese assessment
Language	英語English
The Source to Article	PB_Publication
PUB ID	16568
Document Type	Conference paper
Collection	DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Corresponding Author	Wu, A. M. S.
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714	Yu, M. S.,Wu, A. M. S.,Tong, K. K.,et al. Gambling Motives, Attitudes, Behaviors, and Disorder among Chinese People[C], 2015, 66-66.
APA	Yu, M. S.., Wu, A. M. S.., Tong, K. K.., Tao, V. Y. K.., & Chen, J. H. (2015). Gambling Motives, Attitudes, Behaviors, and Disorder among Chinese People. Conference Program Book, 66-66.

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