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The Effects of Abuse, Emotion Regulation and Family Member's Gambling Problem on Problem Gamblers: Developmental Perspective
Hyun-Ji Shin, Young-Imm Choi* and Kyo-Heon Kim
Department of Psychology, Chungnam National University, Republic of Korea
- *Corresponding Author:
- Young-Imm Choi
Department of psychology, Chungnam National University
Daehak-ro, Yusung-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Tel: 82-10-7449-0645; 82-42-821-6224
Fax: 82-42-821-8898
E-mail: psycho97@cnu.ac.kr
Received date: March 21, 2017; Accepted date: April 24, 2017; Published date: April 30, 2017
Citation: Shin HJ, Choi YI, Kim KH (2017) The Effects of Abuse, Emotion Regulation and Family Member’s Gambling Problem on Problem Gamblers: Developmental Perspective. J Addict Res Ther 8:322. doi:10.4172/2155-6105.1000322
Copyright: © 2017 Shin HJ, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The goal of this study was to identify the moderated mediating effect of family member's gambling problem on the connection between abuse, emotion regulation and problem gambling. To this end, a research model was tested among 642 adults (men: 473, women: 169) who gambled at least once a year and had been categorized as problem gamblers based on the CPGI score (8 and above). The study results were as follows: for men, abuse was identified to have a direct effect on problem gambling and an indirect influence on problem gambling by lowering their emotion regulation. In addition, men who experienced much abuse and had a family member with a gambling problem were found to suffer with a gambling problem of higher severity. This indicates that family member’s gambling problem moderates the connection between abuse and gambling problem. As for women, history of domestic abuse affected emotion regulation, but emotion regulation did not mediate the connection between abuse and gambling problem. This study has its significance as it identifies the mechanism of family member’s gambling problem from the perspective of developmental psychopathology, in addition to the mechanism of emotion regulation and gambling problem on the developmental path that negative childhood experience can lead to adjustment problem in adulthood.
