Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"gambling behaviour"”.
-
Psychological Aspects of Gambling Behaviour // Психологически аспекти на хазартното поведение
The current psychological analysis of gambling behaviour (GB) is based on the need to identify a characteristic pattern of behaviour, considered not so much in its pathological form, but rather before it. The author's idea is related to the study of predictors embedded to one degree or another in …
-
Cognitive Approaches To The Explanation Of Gambling Behaviour: An Evaluation
… cognitive explanation of normal and problematic gambling behaviour. The "strong cognitive hypothesis" takes the view that if cognitive processes alone account for different levels of play, then the order of the events experienced during a task may be a good predictor of the levels of play. Four …
-
Exploring the Underlying Psychological Processes of Gambling Behaviour: Individual and Contextual Factors
High levels of impulsivity, positive gambling attitudes, and positive gambling beliefs are identified as risk factors for pathological gambling and related symptoms in numerous surveys and naturalistic studies. However, there remains a need for experimental studies, as we know little about how the …
-
A Comparison of Online Gamblers, Offline Gamblers, and Mixed Mode Gamblers on Gambling and Substance Use
The rise in online gambling has led to greater research focus being directed toward the relationship between gambling modality and gambling behaviour. Such attention is warranted, given the significant increase in people turning to online gambling. It is currently known that mixed-mode gamblers …
-
A Qualitative Study of Women Who Have Been Problem Gamblers
… advancement in our conceptualization of problem gambling behaviour. Despite this progression, there remains a paucity of knowledge about gendered problem gambling behaviour. The purpose of this research was to elucidate the relationship between the female context and female problem gambling …
-
An exploration of how agency and socio-cultural milieu support greater or lesser controlled gambling and recovery from gambling addiction
… how most maintain control over their gambling and how the majority of those who do experience gambling addiction regain control. Findings are based on 25 qualitative semi-structured interviews with participants who fit one of three ideal-type groups: (i) gamblers who have never …
-
Gambling participation among adult Basketball players in Iceland
Studies in the field of gambling behaviour among Icelandic general public and even Icelandic soccer players are relatively common. Despite that, none studies have been conducted about gambling behaviour among Icelandic basketball players. The purpose of this study was to: i) Examine the prevalence …
-
Electronic gaming machines: an integrated mixed-methods examination of the spectrum of gambling-related harms
… is established as a particularly risky form of gambling. The harms of frequent EGM play and problem gambling are many, and negatively affect the individual, families and the broader community. New Zealand is one of the few countries that has incorporated public health approach to gambling harm; …
-
Adolescent gambling in New Zealand: an exploration of protective and risk factors
… in New Zealand of the harms arising from gambling, there remains a lack of knowledge and awareness of the dangers associated with participation in gambling by young people. Although international research has demonstrated that young people are a high-risk group with regard to problem …
-
Behavioural tracking and the effects of responsible gaming tools and personalized feedback in online gambling
Interactive technology has helped online gambling to become a more popular leisure time activity over the last decade. Alongside this development, new forms of Responsible Gaming tools such as voluntary limit setting and personalized feedback have been introduced. These interventions require a …
-
Describing the determinants of problem gaming in South Africa : a longitudinal approach
… describing the temporal determinants of problem gambling in South Africa is established using the National Longitudinal Study of Gambling Behaviour (NLSGB) dataset. Various conceptual ambiguities evidenced in the literature, particularly those associated with the Problem Gambling Severity Index …
-
The Technical Hypothesis of Motivational Interviewing: An Examination of Change Language in Traditional and Computer-based MI for Disordered Gamblers
… of MI purports that MI-consistent therapist behaviours result in greater change language on the part of the client, which in turn leads to a more favourable outcome. The present research builds on existing literature examining client change language as the mechanism by which MI promotes …
-
Māori women and gambling: Every day is a war day!
… with the health implications of new forms of gambling such as casinos, pokie machines and internet gambling for Māori women and their families in Auckland and the Bay of Plenty region of Aotearoa (New Zealand). It set out to discover what culturally appropriate services were available and the …
-
Top-down and Bottom-up influences on ACC activation: Evaluation of a proposed model of the feedback-related negativity
… is altered in individuals at-risk for problem-gambling behaviour (PG). Individuals in this group were more sensitive to the valence of the outcome in a gambling task compared to not at-risk individuals, suggesting that gambling contexts increase the sensitivity of the reward system to valence …
-
Gambling related harm: screening and early prevention
There is an increased awareness that gambling is a meaningful public health issue that requires a robust response centred on prevention. However, unlike other problems such as substance use, gambling-related harm is generally poorly understood, and there is a meaningful lack of previsions to …
-
Routes in and out of problem internet gambling by gender and by gambling activity: a mixed-method study based on personal accounts of internet gamblers
In the last two decades, Internet gambling (IG) has emerged as a medium in which to gamble. This research aimed to increase understanding of IG by examining routes in and out of problem IG, and also investigating similarities and differences between men and women, players of different IG activities …