Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
Psychol Addict Behav. 2010 Jun;24(2):292-9. doi: 10.1037/a0018126.
The family history (FH) method, which involves the use of an informant to gather information about one or more family members, has been used in a number of previous gambling studies. However, no evaluation of the reliability and validity has been conducted on the use of the FH method for assessing pathological gambling (PG) and gambling involvement. The current study examined the test-retest and inter-rater reliability and the validity of the FH method for assessing PG and gambling involvement among a large community-based sample of adult twins (N = 4,764) reporting on their parents, co-twins, and spouses. The test-retest and inter-rater reliabilities of the FH reports of PG were high. Validity of the FH reports of PG was low, primarily because of substantial underestimation of pathology (low sensitivity). The test-retest and inter-rater reliabilities of the FH reports of gambling involvement (ever gambled, ever gambled monthly, and ever gambled weekly) were moderate and the sensitivities were quite high. The results of this study support the use of the FH method for studies of PG and gambling involvement. A number of potential explanations for the low sensitivity of FH reports of PG are elaborated.
家族史（FH）方法涉及使用信息提供者来收集一个或多个家庭成员的信息，已在许多先前的赌博研究中使用。然而，对于使用 FH 方法评估病理性赌博（PG）和赌博参与度的可靠性和有效性尚未进行评估。本研究在一个大型基于社区的成年双胞胎样本（N=4764）中，对父母、同卵双胞胎和配偶进行了测试-重测和评分者间信度以及 FH 方法评估 PG 和赌博参与度的效度检验。PG 的 FH 报告的测试-重测和评分者间信度较高。PG 的 FH 报告的效度较低，主要是因为病理学的大量低估（低灵敏度）。赌博参与度（曾赌博、曾每月赌博和曾每周赌博）的 FH 报告的测试-重测和评分者间信度为中等，灵敏度相当高。本研究的结果支持使用 FH 方法研究 PG 和赌博参与度。对 FH 报告 PG 灵敏度低的一些潜在解释进行了阐述。
