Age of onset in pathological gambling: Clinical, therapeutic and personality correlates

Susana Jiménez-Murcia; Eva M. Álvarez-Moya; Randy Stinchfield; Fernando Fernández-Aranda; Roser Granero; Neus Aymamí; Mónica Gómez-Peña; Nuria Jaurrieta; Francesca Bove; José M. Menchón

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Age of onset in pathological gambling: Clinical, therapeutic and personality correlates

Susana Jiménez-Murcia, Eva M. Álvarez-Moya, Randy Stinchfield, Fernando Fernández-Aranda, Roser Granero, Neus Aymamí, Mónica Gómez-Peña, Nuria Jaurrieta, Francesca Bove, José M. Menchón

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We aimed to explore the association between age of onset of gambling problems and current psychopathological and clinical status, personality profile and therapeutic outcome in a sample of pathological gamblers. A total of 904 consecutive pathological gambling patients were administered several instruments about gambling behavior, psychopathology and personality. They received a 4-month cognitive-behavioral group treatment. Information of dropouts and relapses during treatment was registered. Older age of onset of gambling problems was associated with higher general psychopathology (SCL-90-R Paranoid Ideation, Psychoticism, Depression; P < 0.015). Younger age of onset was related to greater severity of pathological gambling (P < 0.015), higher novelty seeking, and lower self-directedness (P < 0.015). No statistically significant association was found between age of onset and relapse and dropouts during treatment. Age of onset of gambling problems seems to influence the clinical presentation of pathological gambling but not treatment outcome.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	235-248
Number of pages	14
Journal	Journal of gambling studies
Volume	26
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-009-9175-3
State	Published - Jun 2010

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Acknowledgements This work is part of the PhD dissertation of Neus Aymami at the University Auto-noma of Barcelona. Financial support was received from Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria -FIS (PI081573; PI081714) and AGAUR (2009SGR1554). It was also partially supported by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-ICT-215839-2007-Playmancer project). CIBER Fis-iopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn) and CIBER Salud Mental (CIBERsam), are initiatives of ISCIII.

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Age of onset
Cognitive-behavioral therapy
Pathological gambling
Personality
Psychopathology

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