ArticleEuropean addiction research2019
Gambling on Smartphones: A Study of a Potentially Addictive Behaviour in a Naturalistic Setting.
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- Mobile Phone Craving in Spain: Associations with Impulsivity, Anxiety, Gaming Problem, and Gambling Severity.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The relationship between Problem Gambling Severity Index scores and suicidality: Results of a 9-year cohort study of young United Kingdom adults.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Internet, App-Based, and Casino Gambling: Associations Between Modality, Problem Gambling, and Substance Use.Journal of gambling studies · 2024Article
- Feature preferences of sports betting platforms: A discrete choice experiment shows why young bettors prefer smartphones.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2024Article
- Situational features of smartphone betting are linked to sports betting harm: An ecological momentary assessment study.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2023Article
- Unravelling the Enigma: How Behavioural Addictions Alter the Developing Child Brain?Annals of neurosciences · 2023Article
- How structural changes in online gambling are shaping the contemporary experiences and behaviours of online gamblers: an interview study.BMC public health · 2022Article
- The Gamblification of Investing: How a New Generation of Investors Is Being Born to Lose.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Absence of Objective Differences between Self-Identified Addicted and Healthy Smartphone Users?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- A casino in my pocket: Gratifications associated with obsessive and harmonious passion for mobile gambling.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
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.
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