Duvarci I, Varan A
Department of Psychiatry, Ege University Medical School, Turkey.
Scand J Psychol. 2000 Sep;41(3):253-60. doi: 10.1111/1467-9450.00195.
This study investigated the descriptive features of Turkish pathological gamblers. Participants were 31 male pathological gamblers and 42 "regular gamblers" who acted as controls. The subjects were diagnosed on the basis of DSM-IV pathological gambling criteria and completed the Turkish Version of South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS). The nonpathological group was quite comparable with the pathological gambling group with respect to types and frequency of gambling and socio-demographic features. The data on the variables that defined and discriminated pathological gamblers from regular gamblers were collected through administration of a 68-item questionnaire, prepared by the authors. Compared to the non pathological gamblers, the pathological gamblers gambled more to recover their losses, experienced craving for gambling more often, gambled more often to obtain relief from disturbing emotions, harboured more irrational and unrealistic cognitions to rationalize their gambling behavior and suffered more emotionally, financially and socially as a result of their involvement in gambling. The results of the study suggested that Turkish pathological gamblers are very much like their counterparts in Western countries.
本研究调查了土耳其病态赌徒的描述性特征。参与者包括31名男性病态赌徒和42名作为对照的“普通赌徒”。这些受试者根据《精神疾病诊断与统计手册》第四版（DSM-IV）的病态赌博标准进行诊断，并完成了《南橡树赌博筛查量表》（SOGS）的土耳其语版本。在赌博类型和频率以及社会人口学特征方面，非病态组与病态赌博组相当。通过作者编制的一份68项问卷，收集了界定病态赌徒与普通赌徒并将二者区分开来的变量数据。与非病态赌徒相比，病态赌徒为挽回损失而赌博的次数更多，更经常体验到对赌博的渴望，为摆脱烦乱情绪而赌博的频率更高，怀有更多不合理和不现实的认知来为自己的赌博行为辩解，并且由于参与赌博在情感、经济和社会方面遭受的痛苦更多。研究结果表明，土耳其病态赌徒与西方国家的同类人群非常相似。
