Self Control Deficits and Pathological Gambling

Karin Tochkov

International Journal of Psychological Studies, 2010, vol. 2, issue 2, 65

Abstract: The present paper focuses on the concepts of self-control and impulsivity as central features of clinical disorderslike pathological gambling. The main purpose is to show the link between models in biopsychology andexperiments with animals concerning self-control and models in clinical psychology involving patients withimpulse control deficits. A representative model of each of the two research fields is discussed along withempirical studies and their implications for theory and treatment of pathological gambling.

Date: 2010
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