School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom,
School of Psychology, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom.
Eur Addict Res. 2019;25(1):30-40. doi: 10.1159/000495663. Epub 2019 Jan 10.
Smartphone users engage extensively with their devices, on an intermittent basis for short periods of time. These patterns of behaviour have the potential to make mobile gambling especially perseverative. This paper reports the first empirical study of mobile gambling in which a simulated gambling app was used to measure gambling behaviour in phases of acquisition and extinction. We found that participants showed considerable perseverance in the face of continued losses that were linearly related to their prior engagement with the app. Latencies between gambles were associated with the magnitude of reinforcement; more positive outcomes were associated with longer breaks between play and a greater propensity to end a gambling session. Greater latencies were associated with measurements of problem gambling, and perseverance with gambling-related cognitions and sensation-seeking behaviour.
智能手机用户频繁地使用他们的设备，并且会间歇性地进行短时间的操作。这些行为模式有可能使移动赌博特别具有坚持性。本文报告了首个移动赌博的实证研究，该研究使用模拟赌博应用程序来测量在获取和消退阶段的赌博行为。我们发现，参与者在面对持续损失时表现出相当大的坚持，而这种损失与他们之前使用该应用程序的程度呈线性相关。赌博之间的潜伏期与强化的幅度有关；更积极的结果与更长的休息时间以及更倾向于结束赌博期有关。更大的潜伏期与赌博相关的认知和寻求刺激行为的测量有关，而坚持与赌博有关的认知和寻求刺激行为有关。
