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Impulsivity, personality disorders and pathological gambling severity

Z Steel1, A Blaszczynski

  • 1Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Liverpool Hospital, Australia.

Addiction (Abingdon, England)
|September 23, 1998
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Pathological gamblers show higher impulsivity, linked to gambling severity and personality disorders. Impulsivity is a key factor in gambling behavior and psychological distress.

Area of Science:

  • Psychiatry
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Behavioral Science

Background:

  • Pathological gambling is associated with elevated impulsivity traits.
  • Previous research suggests a link between impulsivity and gambling severity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To replicate and expand on findings of elevated impulsivity in pathological gamblers.
  • To examine the relationship between impulsivity, gambling severity, and other psychopathological and personality disorders.

Main Methods:

  • A case series design involving 82 treatment-seeking pathological gamblers.
  • Utilized semi-structured interviews, South Oaks Gambling Screen, Eysenck Impulsivity Scale, Personality Disorder Questionnaire-Revised, Beck Depression Inventory, and Beck Anxiety Inventory.

Main Results:

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  • Pathological gamblers exhibited significantly higher impulsivity compared to normative data.
  • Impulsivity was positively correlated with the severity of gambling behavior.
  • Principal component analysis revealed that the 'antisocial-impulivist' construct includes other personality disorders beyond antisocial personality disorder.

Conclusions:

  • Impulsivity plays a crucial role in mediating gambling severity and associated psychological disturbances.
  • Impulsivity is best understood as part of a broader personality disorder structure, including DSM-III-R Axis II cluster B and some cluster C disorders.