ArticleClinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2022
An Epidemiologic, Longitudinal, and Discordant-Twin Study of the Association Between Gambling Disorder and Suicidal Behaviors.
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- Suicidal Behaviors and Associated Factors Among Individuals with Gambling Disorders: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of gambling studies · 2023Pooled it
- Gambling-related suicides and suicidality: A systematic review of qualitative evidence.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Suicidal ideation among people with different gambling behaviour profiles: analysis of a longitudinal survey of people who gamble regularly in the UK.BJPsych open · 2026Article
- Genetic and shared environmental factors explain the association between adolescent polysubstance use and high school noncompletion.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2024Article
- Adolescent substance use and high school noncompletion: exploring the nature of the relationship using a discordant twin design.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Gambling disorder is associated with suicidal behaviors, but it is not clear whether the association is due to common etiologic factors or to gambling disorder being causally related to suicidality. This question was examined from epidemiologic, longitudinal, and discordant twin study perspectives. The results suggested that the causes of the association with disordered gambling differed for suicidal ideation, plan, and attempt, and differed for men and women. The association of suicidal thoughts with disordered gambling was non-causally explained by common genetic influences among women (but not men). Conversely, there was evidence consistent with a potentially causal influence of disordered gambling on suicide attempt among men (but not women), which might have been related to gambling-related financial problems. The use of monetary data to identify individuals experiencing financial harms associated with their gambling may represent a more practicable target for screening, intervention, and prevention and may reduce gambling-related financial crises, thereby warding off a potential gambling-related suicide attempt.
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