| Title |
Problem Gambling Family Impacts: Development of the Problem Gambling Family Impact Scale
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Gambling Studies, November 2015
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10899-015-9582-6 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
N. A. Dowling, A. Suomi, A. C. Jackson, T. Lavis |
| Abstract |
Although family members of problem gamblers frequently present to treatment services, problem gambling family impacts are under-researched. The most commonly endorsed items on a new measure of gambling-related family impacts [Problem Gambling Family Impact Measure (PG-FIM: Problem Gambler version)] by 212 treatment-seeking problem gamblers included trust (62.5 %), anger (61.8 %), depression or sadness (58.7 %), anxiety (57.7 %), distress due to gambling-related absences (56.1 %), reduced quality time (52.4 %), and communication breakdowns (52.4 %). The PG-FIM (Problem Gambler version) was comprised of three factors: (1) financial impacts, (2) increased responsibility impacts, and (3) psychosocial impacts with good psychometric properties. Younger, more impulsive, non-electronic gaming machine (EGM) gamblers who had more severe gambling problems reported more financial impacts; non-EGM gamblers with poorer general health reported more increased responsibility impacts; and more impulsive non-EGM gamblers with more psychological distress and higher gambling severity reported more psychosocial impacts. The findings have implications for the development of interventions for the family members of problem gamblers. |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 14 | 13% |
| Unspecified | 10 | 9% |
| Researcher | 10 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 18 | 17% |
| Unknown | 33 | 31% |
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| Social Sciences | 13 | 12% |
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