Feigelman William, Gorman Bernard S, Lesieur Henry
Department of Sociology, Nassau Community College, One Education Drive, Garden City, New York 11530-6793, USA.
Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2006 Aug;36(4):396-408. doi: 10.1521/suli.2006.36.4.396.
Although many clinical studies document a relationship between gambling and suicidality, evidence of this association in general population surveys has been mixed. Probing this association in a nationally representative sample of young adults with data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, we made same gender comparisons of depression and suicidality between 298 at-risk gamblers and 13,000 others. Although gamblers of both genders showed higher depression, only females reported significantly higher suicide thoughts and attempts. Males with gambling problems were no more likely than nongamblers to have suicide thoughts or to make prior suicide attempts on three separate measurement occasions.
尽管许多临床研究记录了赌博与自杀倾向之间的关系，但在一般人群调查中，这种关联的证据并不一致。利用青少年健康全国纵向调查的数据，在全国具有代表性的年轻成年人样本中探究这种关联，我们对298名有风险的赌徒和13000名其他人进行了抑郁和自杀倾向的同性比较。尽管两性赌徒的抑郁程度都较高，但只有女性报告有明显更多的自杀念头和自杀未遂情况。在三个不同的测量时点上，有赌博问题的男性与非赌徒相比，出现自杀念头或之前有过自杀未遂的可能性并无差异。
