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Parke, A., Griffiths, M. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8880-6524, Pattinson, J. and Keatley, D.,
2018.
Age-related physical and psychological vulnerability as pathways to problem gambling in older adults.
Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 7 (1), pp. 137-145.
ISSN 2062-5871
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Abstract
Background: To inform clinical treatment and preventative efforts, there is an important need to understand the pathways to late-life gambling disorder. Aims: This study assesses the association between age-related physical health, social networks, and problem gambling in adults aged over 65 years and assesses the mediating role of affective disorders in this association.
Methods: The sample comprised 595 older adults (mean age: 74.4 years, range: 65–94 years; 77.1% female) who were interviewed using a structured questionnaire to assess physical frailty, geriatric pain, loneliness, geriatric depression, geriatric anxiety, and problem gambling.
Results: Pathway analysis demonstrated associations between these variables and gambling problems, providing a good fit for the data, but that critically these relationships were mediated by both anxiety and depression symptoms.
Conclusions: This study indicates that late-life problem gambling may develop as vulnerable individuals gamble to escape anxiety and depression consequent to deteriorating physical well-being and social support. When individuals develop late-life problem gambling, it is recommended that the treatment primarily focuses upon targeting and replacing avoidant coping approaches.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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| Publication Title: | Journal of Behavioral Addictions | ||||
| Creators: | Parke, A., Griffiths, M., Pattinson, J. and Keatley, D. | ||||
| Publisher: | Akadémiai Kiadó | ||||
| Date: | 2018 | ||||
| Volume: | 7 | ||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||
| ISSN: | 2062-5871 | ||||
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| Rights: | © 2018 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited. | ||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||
| Record created by: | Jill Tomkinson | ||||
| Date Added: | 01 Mar 2018 15:02 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 31 May 2018 11:23 | ||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/32846 |
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