ArticlePsychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors2014
Test of a potential causal influence of earlier age of gambling initiation on gambling involvement and disorder: a multilevel discordant twin design.
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- Patterns of gambling and substance use initiation in African American and White adolescents and young adults.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2020Article
- Problem and non-problem gamblers: a cross-sectional clustering study by gambling characteristics.BMJ open · 2020Article
- Potential Causal Influence of Neighborhood Disadvantage on Disordered Gambling: Evidence From a Multilevel Discordant Twin Design.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2019Article
- Genetic and environmental origins of gambling behaviors from ages 18 to 25: A longitudinal twin family study.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2017Article
- Behavioral addictions in addiction medicine: from mechanisms to practical considerations.Progress in brain research · 2016Review
- Telescoping and gender differences in the time course of disordered gambling: evidence from a general population sample.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2015Article
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Abstract
The premise that an association between an earlier age of gambling initiation and the later development of disordered gambling is causal has not yet been empirically examined. The current study used a multilevel discordant twin design to examine the nature of this association. Participants were 3,546 same-sex twins (mean age = 37.7 years) from the Australian Twin Registry who completed a telephone interview that included an extensive assessment of gambling and related behaviors. Multilevel models were employed to estimate individual (within-twin-pair comparison) and family level (between-twin-pair comparison) effects, as well as the cross-level interaction between these effects. Family-level effects (genetic or environmental factors shared by family members) of age of gambling initiation robustly predicted later adult gambling frequency and disorder; the evidence for individual-level effects (unique factors not shared by family members, including a potentially causal effect of earlier age of gambling onset) was less robust. The results of this study suggest that the relation between earlier age of gambling initiation and later gambling involvement and disorder is primarily noncausal; efforts to delay the onset of gambling among young people may not necessarily reduce the number who later go on to develop gambling-related problems.
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