Desire Thinking About Gambling: Assessment and Associations With Gambling Disorder and Responsible Gambling Among Chinese Gamblers.
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Chen, J., Spada, M., Ling, H., Tong, K. and Wu, A. (2024). Desire Thinking About Gambling: Assessment and Associations With Gambling Disorder and Responsible Gambling Among Chinese Gamblers. Journal of Gambling Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-024-10313-7
Authors | Chen, J., Spada, M., Ling, H., Tong, K. and Wu, A. |
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Abstract | Desire thinking, within the metacognitive model of addictive behaviors, is conceptualized as a transdiagnostic process linked to the escalation and maintenance of craving for various addictive disorders; however, its application to the understanding of gambling and the Chinese community remains at an early stage. The present study aimed to introduce desire thinking into gambling research in the Chinese context by: (1) testing the applicability of its two-factor conceptualization and assessment tool, the Desire Thinking Questionnaire (DTQ), and (2) exploring its association with dysregulated and regulated engagements in gambling (i.e., Gambling Disorder [GD] and responsible gambling [RG], respectively). We conducted a telephone survey in Macao, China, and obtained a probability sample of 837 Chinese adult past-year gamblers (48.5% men; age: M = 41.11, SD = 14.31) with a two-stage cluster random sampling method. Our data indicated the psychometric adequacy of the two-factor DTQ (i.e., verbal perseveration and imaginal prefiguration) for measuring Chinese gamblers' desire thinking about gambling. After controlling for craving and demographics, desire thinking contributed to an additional 12.1% and 18.9% variance explained in GD tendency and RG behaviors, respectively. This study provides the first empirical evidence of the utility of desire thinking and the DTQ in facilitating gambling research on Chinese gamblers. Our findings also suggest the value of incorporating desire thinking in detecting and treating GD and in promoting RG. [Abstract copyright: © 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.] |
Keywords | Desire thinking; Gambling disorder; Addictive behavior; Responsible gambling; Craving; Metacognitive model |
Year | 2024 |
Journal | Journal of Gambling Studies |
Publisher | Springer |
ISSN | 1573-3602 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-024-10313-7 |
Web address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10899-024-10313-7 |
Funder/Client | University of Macau |
Publication dates | |
Online | 17 May 2024 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 28 Apr 2024 |
Deposited | 04 Jun 2024 |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Open |
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