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

Marta Sancho, Céline Bonnaire, Silvia Costa, Gemma Casalé-Salayet, Javier Vera-Igual, Rita Cristina Rodríguez, Santiago Duran-Sindreu and Joan Trujols
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Marta Sancho: Addictive Behaviors Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, 08025 Barcelona, Spain
Céline Bonnaire: Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Processus de Santé, Université de Paris, F-92100 Boulogne Billancourt, France
Silvia Costa: Addictive Behaviors Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Hospital de la Santa Creu i 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
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
Joan Trujols: Addictive Behaviors Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, 08025 Barcelona, Spain

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 9, 1-13

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.

Keywords: online gambling; gambling disorder; emotion regulation; attentional bias; impulsivity; gambling-related cognition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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