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Gambling on the stock market: an unexplored issue.
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PMID:  22300903     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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OBJECTIVE: Stock market investment (SMI) is one of the most socially acceptable types of gambling, which, however, can turn into a gambling problem. Because it is barely examined, we compared a series of clinical, psychopathologic, and personality variables in SMI gambling patients (both as primary and secondary problem) with a group of traditional pathologic gamblers (PGs). METHOD: A total sample of 1470 PGs (1376 patients without SMIs [PG-SMI], 76 patients with SMI as a secondary gambling problem [PG+SMI], and 18 patients with SMI as a primary gambling problem [SMI+PG]) participated in this study. All participants were diagnosed according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, criteria. The following instruments were used: the South Oaks Gambling Screen, the Symptom Check List-90 Items-Revised, the Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised, and other clinical and psychopathologic indices. RESULTS: The 3 patient groups' profiles were statistically similar in psychometrical measures. The risk of having SMI increased for patients with higher education, and the presence of SMI as a primary problem in PGs increased with university study level and higher scores on the personality trait of cooperativeness. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study indicate comparability of SMI gamblers with PGs in their general clinical profile and in psychopathology and personality.
Authors:
Roser Granero; Salomé Tárrega; Fernando Fernández-Aranda; Neus Aymamí; Mónica Gómez-Peña; Laura Moragas; Núria Custal; Lisa Orekhova; Lamprini G Savvidou; José M Menchón; Susana Jiménez-Murcia
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Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2012-1-31
Journal Detail:
Title:  Comprehensive psychiatry     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1532-8384     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2012 Jan 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2012-2-3     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0372612     Medline TA:  Compr Psychiatry     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Affiliation:
Laboratori d'Estadística Aplicada, Departament de Psicobiologia i Metodologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; Ciber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Instituto Salud Carlos III, Spain.
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