Anxiety and social stress related to adolescent gambling behavior

Ste-Marie, Chantal

Anxiety and social stress related to adolescent gambling behavior

dc.contributor.author	Ste-Marie, Chantal
dc.date.accessioned	2005-01-21T17:32:05Z
dc.date.available	2005-01-21T17:32:05Z
dc.date.issued	2001-09
dc.description.abstract	This study examined the relationship between anxiety, social stress, and gambling behavior among 1,044 high school students from grades 7 to 11. Adolescents completed questionnaires concerning their state, trait, and generalized anxiety, social stress, and gambling behavior. Results reveal that probable pathological gamblers report more state anxiety, trait anxiety, and social stress compared to non-gamblers, gamblers with no/minimal problems, and problem gamblers. Gamblers with the highest levels of state and trait anxiety engaged in more severe gambling behaviors, substance abuse, reported different reasons for gambling, and endorsed more dissociation items compared to gamblers whose anxiety and social stress levels were in the average or low range. Results of this study provide added support for Jacob's General Theory of Addictions.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Loto-Quebec; Dr. Jeffrey Derevensky, thesis supervisor	en
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dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/9411
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/450
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, McGill University	en
dc.subject	Gambling behaviour	en
dc.subject	Adolescent behaviour	en
dc.subject	Pathological gamblers	en
dc.subject	Substance abuse	en
dc.subject.other	Gambling Literature
dc.title	Anxiety and social stress related to adolescent gambling behavior	en
dc.title.alternative	Anxiety and social stress related to gambling	en
dc.type	Thesis	en