Loo Jasmine M Y, Shi Yongdong, Pu Xiaohong
Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Sunway, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
J Gambl Stud. 2016 Jun;32(2):391-407. doi: 10.1007/s10899-015-9569-3.
The investigation of the interface between psychological constructs, compulsive consumption of alcohol and pathological gambling is an important avenue for development of future initiatives in social marketing or prevention programs. This cross-cultural study attempts to bridge the gap in literature by providing an evaluation of the predictive ability of psychological variables such as gambling urge, gambling-related erroneous cognitions and comorbid alcohol consumption on pathological gambling behaviour and its impact on overall quality of life indicators. Participants consist of 445 Macao and Australian young adults (Mean age = 23 years). Results indicate that probable pathological gamblers as compared with non-gamblers reported significantly lower quality of life in all domains-physical health, psychological well-being, social relationships and environment. Adults who drank more alcohol and have stronger erroneous cognitions evidenced higher pathological gambling behavior. Our research model fits both cohorts and interestingly, erroneous gambling-related cognitions serve as a full mediator for the predictive relationship between gambling urge and pathological gambling in the Macao sample, but serve as a partial mediator in the Australian sample. Targeting erroneous cognitions in future social marketing or preventive campaigns should demonstrate to be an important strategy in reducing the effects of urge to gamble among at-risk individuals. Further implications for the industry, marketing and governmental strategies are discussed.
对心理建构、酒精强迫性消费与病态赌博之间的界面进行调查，是未来社会营销或预防项目举措发展的一条重要途径。这项跨文化研究试图通过评估诸如赌博冲动、与赌博相关的错误认知以及共病酒精消费等心理变量对病态赌博行为的预测能力及其对总体生活质量指标的影响，来弥合文献中的差距。参与者包括445名澳门和澳大利亚的年轻人（平均年龄 = 23岁）。结果表明，与非赌博者相比，可能的病态赌博者在身体健康、心理健康、社会关系和环境等所有领域的生活质量显著较低。饮酒较多且错误认知较强的成年人表现出更高的病态赌博行为。我们的研究模型适用于两个队列，有趣的是，与赌博相关的错误认知在澳门样本中是赌博冲动与病态赌博之间预测关系的完全中介变量，但在澳大利亚样本中是部分中介变量。在未来的社会营销或预防活动中针对错误认知，应该会成为减少高危个体赌博冲动影响的一项重要策略。文中还讨论了对该行业、营销和政府策略的进一步影响。
