Browsing by Author "Currie, Shawn"

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    Alberta Gambling Research Institute Conference 2021: Gambling in Canada: Current Research & Future Directions
    (Alberta Gambling Research Institute, 2021-04) Baich, Eric; Belanger, Yale; Chamberlain, Erika; Christensen, Darren; Clark, Luke; Currie, Shawn; Derevensky, Jeffrey; Dixon, Darcy; Dixon, Mike; Euston, David; Hilbrecht, Margo; Hodgins, David; Kim, Andrew; Lautischer, Steve; Lee, Bonnie; Leonard, Carrie; Manitowabi, Darrel; Marshall, Murray; McGrath, Daniel; Nicoll, Fiona; Ofori-Dei, Samuel; Papineau, Elisabeth; Scholnick, Barry; Sévigny, Serge; Shead, Will; Simpson, Rob; Stevens, Rhys; Stewart, Sherry; Tabri, Nassim; Turner, Nigel; Wiebe, Jamie; Williams, Robert; Wohl, Michael J. A.; Yakovenko, Igor; Young, Matthew; Aidelbaum, Robert; Allen, Sasha; Baxter, David; Brazeau, Brad; Cowie, Megan; Dorchak, Danika; Dowson, Mackenzie E.; Ethier, Ashley R.; Gooding, Nolan; Gorenko, Julie; HeavyShield, Marley; Kim, Hyoun S. (Andrew); Kruger, Tyler B.; Larche, Chanel J.; Laskowski, Catherine S.; Leca, Jean-Baptiste; Leslie, Diandra; Mackey-Simpkin, Sean; Marchica, Loredana; Peel, Marie-Audrey; Piquette, Noëlla; Ritchie, Emma V.; Russell, Gillian; Schluter, Magdalen; Schoen, Anthony; Sharif-Razi, Maryam; Sontag, Roxanne; Stark, Sasha; Trottier, Maegan; Yi, Sunghwan
    The Alberta Gambling Research Institute's 20th Annual Conference "Gambling in Canada: Current Research & Future Directions" took place April 27-29, 2021 as a live virtual event. A selection of conference presentations and research posters presented at the event have been made available with the permission of the authors.
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    Critical Issues in Gambling Research: Alberta Gambling Research Institute's 14th Annual Conference
    (2015-03) Arthur, Jennifer; Belanger, Yale D.; Casey, Emma; Christensen, Darren R.; Clark, Luke; Currie, Shawn; Delfabbro, Paul; Dixon, Mike J.; Harrigan, Kevin; Huang, Haifang; Lee, Bonnie; Leonard, Carrie A.; McGrath, Daniel; Ohtsuka, Keis; Parke, Jonathan; Smith, Garry; Steinke, Claudia; Volberg, Rachel A.; Walker, Gordon; Winstanley, Catharine A.; Wood, Richard
    The Alberta Gambling Research Institute and the University of Lethbridge co-sponsored the fourteenth in a series of special interest conferences in the area of gambling studies. The conference theme was "Critical Issues in Gambling Research." The conference took place Friday, March 27, & Saturday, March 28, 2015 at the Banff Centre.
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    Emergent Clinical Issues in Problem Gambling
    (2010-04) Battersby, Malcolm; Casey, David; Currie, Shawn; Currie, Cheryl; el-Guebaly, Nady; Gainsbury, Sally; Gibbs Van Brunschot, Erin; Lobo, Daniela S. S.; MacKay, Terri-Lynn; Marshall, Liam E.; Nilsson, Thomas; Sévigny, Serge; Smith, Garry J.; Tavares, Hermano; Westphal, Jim; Williams, Rob; Zohar, Joseph
    The "Emergent Clinical Issues in Problem Gambling" conference took place Friday, April 9 & Saturday, April 10, 2010 at The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Presentation and discussion topics included competing perspectives on etiology and conceptualization of gambling disorders.
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    Prevention of problem gambling: Lessons learned from two Alberta programs
    (National Association for Gambling Studies Inc., 2004) Williams, Robert J.; Connolly, Dennis; Wood, Robert; Currie, Shawn
    The development of effective problem gambling prevention programs is in its infancy. The present paper discusses results of randomized control trials of two programs that have been implemented in Alberta, Canada. The first is a 10 session program delivered to several classes of university students taking Introductory Statistics. This program focused primarily on teaching the probabilities associated with gambling and included several hands-on demonstrations of typical casino table games. The second is a 5 session program delivered to high school students at several sites in southern Alberta. This program was more comprehensive, containing information and exercises on the nature of gambling and problem gambling, gambling fallacies, gambling odds, decisionmaking, coping skills, and social problem-solving skills. Data concerning gambling attitudes, gambling fallacies and gambling behaviour at 3 and 6-months postintervention are presented. The findings of these studies are somewhat counter-intuitive and have important implications for the design of effective prevention programs.
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    Program findings that inform curriculum development for the prevention of problem gambling
    (National Association of Gambling Studies Australia, 2004-05) Williams, Robert J.; Connolly, Dennis; Wood, Robert; Currie, Shawn; Davis, R. Meghan
    The development of effective problem gambling prevention programs is in its infancy. The present paper discusses results of randomized control trials of two programs that have been implemented in Alberta, Canada. The first is a 10 session program delivered to several classes of university students taking Introductory Statistics. This program focused primarily on teaching the probabilities associated with gambling and included several hands-on demonstrations of typical casino table games. The second is a 5 session program delivered to high school students at several sites in southern Alberta. This program was more comprehensive, containing information and exercises on the nature of gambling and problem gambling, gambling fallacies, gambling odds, decision-making, coping skills, and social problem-solving skills. Data concerning gambling attitudes, gambling fallacies and gambling behaviour at 3 and 6-months post-intervention are presented. The findings of these studies are somewhat counter-intuitive and have important implications for the design of effective prevention programs.
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    The relationship of negative affect, coping, and alcohol expectancies to binge drinking in university students
    (2012) McLachlan, Jessica; Currie, Shawn
    The current two part study aimed to test the mood management theory (MMT) and develop a psychological profile to predict binge drinking in university students. Given the MMT, negative affect was hypothesized to be particularly relevant when considering predictors of binge drinking. However, it was also hypothesized that the relationship between negative affect and binge drinking would be influenced by additional variables and that when considered together the proposed profile (i.e., one based on negative affect, avoidant coping, and positive alcohol expectancies) would further increase the ability to predict binge drinking status. Study one developed this psychological profile and study two tested, using cross-validation, the validity of this profile in predicting future drinking. Study one found that ethnicity, low negative affect, and a two-way interaction between avoidant coping and positive alcohol expectancies predicted binge drinking status (i.e., non-binge drinker versus binge drinker) and number of binge drinking episodes. Examination of the two-way interaction revealed that those with high positive alcohol expectancies and high avoidant coping were the most likely to binge drink. The overall cross-validation accuracy in study two was 59.6%, which was approximately 10% lower than the classification rate in study one. The findings provided partial support for the current hypotheses; however, since low levels of negative affect predicted binge drinking, the mood management theory does not offer a sound explanation of binge drinking in the current sample.
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    Treatment of Problem Gambling: A Vision for the Future
    (2004-05) Derevensky, Jeffrey L.; Hodgins, David; Rugle, Loreen; Potenza, Marc N.; Ladouceur, Robert; Ciarrocchi, Joseph; Blaszczynski, Alex; Currie, Shawn; Stinchfield, Randy