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The paradoxical relationship between emotion regulation and gambling-related cognitive biases.
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- Impulsivity, Gambling-Related Cognitions, Cognitive Reappraisal and Gambling Behaviour in a Malaysian Sample.Journal of gambling studies · 2024Article
- Emotional Dysregulation, Shame and Guilt Predict Severity of Gambling Among a Population of Gamblers.Journal of gambling studies · 2024Observational
- Betting on Your Feelings: The Interplay between Emotion and Cognition in Gambling Affective Task.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Gambling and virtual reality: unraveling the illusion of near-misses effect.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Validation of Gambling Related Cognitions Scale-Iranian Version (GRCS-IR).Addiction & health · 2023Article
- Relationship of gambling disorder with traumatic life events and emotion regulation in adolescents and young adults.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2023Article
- e-Estesia: A Serious Game for Reducing Arousal, Improving Emotional Regulation and Increasing Wellbeing in Individuals with Gambling Disorder.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Emotion-related impulsivity and rumination: Unique and conjoint effects on suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and nonsuicidal self-injury across two samples.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2022Article
- Predicting Problem Gambling Severity: Interplay between Emotion Dysregulation and Gambling-related Cognitions.Journal of gambling studies · 2022Article
- Links between cognitive distortions and cognitive emotion regulation strategies in non-clinical young adulthood.Cognitive processing · 2022Article
- Alter Game: A Study Protocol on a Virtual "Serious Game" for Relapse Prevention in Patients With Gambling Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundGambling behavior presents substantial individual variability regarding its severity, manifestations, and psychological correlates. Specifically, differences in emotion regulation, impulsivity, and cognitive distortions have been identified as crucial to describe individual profiles with implications for the prevention, prognosis, and treatment of gambling disorder (GD). AIMS AND
methodThe aim of the present study was to investigate the associations of gambling-related cognitions (measured according to the GRCS model) with impulsivity (UPPS-P model) and emotion regulation (CERQ model), in a sample of 246 gamblers with different levels of gambling involvement, using mixed-effects modelling to isolate theoretically relevant associations while controlling for the potentially confounding effects of sociodemographic and clinical covariates.
resultsAffective/motivational dimensions of UPPS-P impulsivity positive urgency and sensation seeking, on the one hand, and CERQ emotion regulation strategies reappraisal, rumination and blaming others, on the other, independently and significantly predicted distorted gambling-related cognitions.
conclusionsThese results (a) reinforce the ones of previous studies stressing the relevance of emotional and motivational processes in the emergence of gambling-related cognitive distortions; and (b) replicate the seemingly paradoxical finding that gamblers use emotion regulation strategies customarily considered as adaptive (i.e. reappraisal) to strengthen and justify their biased beliefs about gambling outcomes and controllability.
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