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Impulsivity, Emotion Regulation, Cognitive Distortions and Attentional Bias in a Spanish Sample of Gambling Disorder Patients: Comparison between Online and Land-Based Gambling

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  • Marta Sancho

    (Addictive Behaviors Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, 08025 Barcelona, Spain
    Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau), 08025 Barcelona, Spain)

  • Céline Bonnaire

    (Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Processus de Santé, Université de Paris, F-92100 Boulogne Billancourt, France
    Youth Addiction Care, Center Pierre Nicole, Croix-Rouge Française, 75005 Paris, France)

  • Silvia Costa

    (Addictive Behaviors Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, 08025 Barcelona, Spain
    Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau), 08025 Barcelona, Spain)

  • Gemma Casalé-Salayet

    (Addictive Behaviors Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, 08025 Barcelona, Spain
    Department of Psychiatry, Bellvitge University Hospital-IDIBELL, 08907 L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain)

  • Javier Vera-Igual

    (Addictive Behaviors Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, 08025 Barcelona, Spain)

  • Rita Cristina Rodríguez

    (Mental Health Unit, Delta del Llobregat Primary Care Service, 08903 L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain)

  • Santiago Duran-Sindreu

    (Addictive Behaviors Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, 08025 Barcelona, Spain
    Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau), 08025 Barcelona, Spain
    CIBER Salud Mental (CIBERsam), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain)

  • Joan Trujols

    (Addictive Behaviors Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, 08025 Barcelona, Spain
    Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau), 08025 Barcelona, Spain
    CIBER Salud Mental (CIBERsam), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain)

Abstract

Several risk factors have been related to the onset and maintenance of gambling disorder (GD). The aim of this study was to explore the differences in emotion dysregulation, impulsivity, cognitive distortions, and attentional bias between online and land-based gamblers. The sample consisted of 88 treatment-seeking patients from the Behavioral Addictions Unit at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona (Spain). Patients were divided into two groups by considering their main type of gambling, i.e., online ( n = 26) and land-based gambling ( n = 62). Online gamblers were younger, more often employed, with a higher educational level than land-based gamblers. Regarding the rest of the variables, statistically significant differences were only found in Positive Urgency , one of the UPPS-P subscales, in which the land-based gambling group scored higher than the online gambling group. In this exploratory study, individuals with online and land-based GD phenotypes did not differ either in difficulties in emotion regulation or in attentional and cognitive biases. However, land-based GD patients showed a higher tendency to succumb to strong impulses under the influence of positive emotions. These preliminary findings warrant the need to continue investigating GD phenotypes in larger patient samples.

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  • Marta Sancho & Céline Bonnaire & Silvia Costa & Gemma Casalé-Salayet & Javier Vera-Igual & Rita Cristina Rodríguez & Santiago Duran-Sindreu & Joan Trujols, 2021. "Impulsivity, Emotion Regulation, Cognitive Distortions and Attentional Bias in a Spanish Sample of Gambling Disorder Patients: Comparison between Online and Land-Based Gambling," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(9), pages 1-13, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:9:p:4869-:d:548307
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