Walters G D
Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA.
J Gambl Stud. 1997 Spring;13(1):7-24. doi: 10.1023/a:1024935115105.
Three hundred and sixty three medium security federal prison inmates were interviewed with the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) with 5.2% of the sample achieving SOGS scores greater than 4 and another 7.4% attaining scores of 3 or 4, traditional markers of pathological gambling and problem gambling, respectively. Attempts were made to evaluate the relative accuracy of the continuum and dichotomy models of problem gambling by contrasting three groups of subjects (SOGS<3, SOGS=3 or 4, SOGS>4) on a series of gambling-related measures and comparing the relative ability of the SOGS and a dichotomized version of the SOGS to account for residual variance in these same gambling-related measures. Results were consistent with the view that problem gambling embodies features of both a continuum and dichotomy. Nearly half the subjects had desisted from problem gambling on their own, although self-remitters displayed less severe and extensive patterns of problem gambling than non-remitting subjects.
对363名中度安全级别的联邦监狱囚犯进行了南橡树赌博筛查（SOGS），样本中有5.2%的人SOGS得分高于4，另有7.4%的人得分是3或4，这分别是病态赌博和问题赌博的传统指标。通过对比三组受试者（SOGS<3、SOGS=3或4、SOGS>4）在一系列与赌博相关的测量指标上的情况，并比较SOGS及其二分版本解释这些相同赌博相关测量指标中剩余方差的相对能力，试图评估问题赌博的连续体模型和二分法模型的相对准确性。结果与问题赌博体现了连续体和二分法特征的观点一致。近一半的受试者自行停止了问题赌博，尽管自行戒赌者的问题赌博模式不如未戒赌者严重和广泛。
