ArticleCanadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie2016
Investigating Possible Reciprocal Relations Between Depressive and Problem Gambling Symptoms in Emerging Adults.
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- Conduct problems and depressive symptoms in association with problem gambling and gaming: A systematic review.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2020Pooled it
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- The Dual Burden of Emerging Adulthood: Assessing Gambling Severity, Gambling-Related Harm, and Mental Health Challenges.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- What explains the link between romantic conflict with gambling problems? Testing a serial mediational model.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Gambling by Young Adults in the UK During COVID-19 Lockdown.Journal of gambling studies · 2022Article
- Problem Gambling in Early Adulthood: a Population-Based Study.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2022Article
- The Reciprocal Association between Problem Gambling and Mental Health Symptoms/Substance Use: Cross-Lagged Path Modelling of Longitudinal Cohort Data.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019Article
- Co-development of Problem Gambling and Depression Symptoms in Emerging Adults: A Parallel-Process Latent Class Growth Model.Journal of gambling studies · 2018Article
- A Latent Class Analysis of Gambling Activity Patterns in a Canadian University Sample of Emerging Adults: Socio-demographic, Motivational, and Mental Health Correlates.Journal of gambling studies · 2018Article
- Explaining the relation between pathological gambling and depression: Rumination as an underlying common cause.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2018Article
- The Blurred Future of Adolescent Gamblers: Impulsivity, Time Horizon, and Emotional Distress.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- The Relationships between Mental Health Symptoms and Gambling Behavior in the Transition from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectivePrevious cross-sectional research has shown that depression and problem gambling co-occur. Longitudinal research, however, allows for a better determination of directionality, as behavioural changes in gambling involvement can be more reliably studied over time. Our study assesses symptoms of depression and problem gambling across 4 waves and addresses whether their relation is directional (with one reliably preceding the other), bidirectional, or pathoplastic.
methodAs part of the Manitoba Longitudinal Study of Young Adults, prospective data were collected on Canadian young adults' (Wave 1: n = 679, 51.8% female, aged 18 to 20 years) depressive symptoms, involvement in gambling, and risky gambling behaviour. Recruitment and the first cycle of data collection (Wave 1) took place in fall 2007. Three additional waves of data collection then occurred in 12- to 18-month intervals: fall 2008, spring 2010, and spring 2011. The Problem Gambling Severity Index and the Composite International Diagnostic Interview-Short Form were administered through telephone interview at each wave.
resultsBivariate growth curves showed that depressive and problem gambling symptoms were positively correlated at Wave 1, Wave 2, and Wave 4. Neither disorder was found to be a risk factor for the other, and depression and problem gambling were not pathoplastically related (that is, increases in one did not result in increases in the other over time, and vice versa).
conclusionsWhile depression and problem gambling are related, their co-occurrence may be better explained not by depressive- or gambling-related risk, but by the presence of a common underlying factor (such as substance abuse).
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