Çıtak Şenel
Psychological Counseling and Guidance, Department of Educational Sciences, Ordu University, Ordu, Türkiye.
Front Psychol. 2023 Oct 26;14:1293933. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1293933. eCollection 2023.
Early age of gambling onset, ease of gambling with technological developments and lack of controlling online gambling games have led to unmanageable risk of gambling. Individual-centered approaches play a significant role in managing the risk that gambling poses on public health and discerning the heterogeneity of gambling addiction. Therefore, this study employed Latent Profile Analysis (LPA), one of the individual-centered approaches, to model the interactions across the psychosocial characteristics of gamblers. The study aims to reveal the latent profiles of gambling addiction. Unlike variable-centered approaches, LPA is a contemporary technique that provides objective information regarding individual psychological processes and behaviors. The profile indicators of the study involve psychosocial characteristics such as resilience, motives to gamble (excitement/fun, avoidance, making money, socializing), purposefulness, responsibility and worthiness. Data were collected from 317 volunteers (M = 68.9%; = 31.1%; mean age = 25.16 ± 6.46) through the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS), Gambling Motives Scale (GMS) and Personal Virtues Scale (PVS). The emerging profiles were defined as adventurous players (14.2%), social gamblers (9.8%), professional gamblers (32.8%), problem gamblers (24.6%) and avoidant gamblers (18.6%). The individual-centered modeling is congruent with the literature on gambling and provides a complementary perspective to understand the heterogeneous structure of gambling. The results are expected to assist mental health professionals in developing educational and clinical intervention programs for gambling behavior. Finally yet importantly, it is recommended that new LPA models be offered through the use of different indicators related to gambling addiction.
赌博起始年龄早、随着技术发展赌博变得容易以及缺乏对在线赌博游戏的管控，导致了难以控制的赌博风险。以个体为中心的方法在管理赌博对公众健康造成的风险以及识别赌博成瘾的异质性方面发挥着重要作用。因此，本研究采用了以个体为中心的方法之一——潜在剖面分析（LPA），来模拟赌徒心理社会特征之间的相互作用。该研究旨在揭示赌博成瘾的潜在剖面。与以变量为中心的方法不同，LPA是一种当代技术，它提供有关个体心理过程和行为的客观信息。该研究的剖面指标涉及心理社会特征，如复原力、赌博动机（兴奋/乐趣、逃避、赚钱、社交）、目的性、责任感和价值感。通过简短复原力量表（BRS）、赌博动机量表（GMS）和个人美德量表（PVS）从317名志愿者（男性=68.9%；女性=31.1%；平均年龄=25.16±6.46）中收集数据。新出现的剖面被定义为冒险型玩家（14.2%）、社交赌徒（9.8%）、职业赌徒（32.8%）、问题赌徒（24.6%）和回避型赌徒（18.6%）。以个体为中心的建模与关于赌博的文献一致，并为理解赌博的异质结构提供了一个补充视角。研究结果有望帮助心理健康专业人员制定针对赌博行为的教育和临床干预项目。最后但同样重要的是，建议通过使用与赌博成瘾相关的不同指标来提供新的LPA模型。
