Exploring the placement of gambling problems within the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology

Carla Martí Valls, Anders Håkansson and Matti Cervin

PLOS ONE, 2025, vol. 20, issue 3, 1-11

Abstract: The placement of gambling problems within the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) framework, which organizes psychopathology alongside broad overarching symptom spectra, is unclear. With the objective to identify associations between gambling problems and the internalizing, externalizing, and thought disorder spectra of the HiTOP, we distributed an online survey to a sample of 1005 Swedish gamblers (52.4% men, aged 18 to 60 and older). Gambling problems were measured using the Problem Gambling Severity Index, and the main HiTOP spectra were assessed with brief versions of the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms II, the Externalizing Spectrum Inventory, and the Thought Disorder Scale. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis showed that the brief HiTOP scales adequately captured the internalizing, externalizing, and thought disorder spectra. Within this structure, gambling problems emerged as a distinct factor significantly correlated with all three spectra and with unique associations with each: externalizing (β = 0.33, p

Date: 2025
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