Impulsivity, Emotion Regulation, Cognitive Distortions and Attentional Bias in a Spanish Sample of Gambling Disorder Patients: Comparison between Online and Land-Based Gambling


Por: Sancho, M, Bonnaire, C, Costa, S, Casale-Salayet, G, Vera-Igual, J, Rodriguez, RC, Duran-Sindreu, S, Trujols, J

Publicada: 1 may 2021
Resumen:
Several risk factors have been related to the onset and maintenance of gambling disorder (GD). The aim of this study was to explore the differences in emotion dysregulation, impulsivity, cognitive distortions, and attentional bias between online and land-based gamblers. The sample consisted of 88 treatment-seeking patients from the Behavioral Addictions Unit at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona (Spain). Patients were divided into two groups by considering their main type of gambling, i.e., online (n = 26) and land-based gambling (n = 62). Online gamblers were younger, more often employed, with a higher educational level than land-based gamblers. Regarding the rest of the variables, statistically significant differences were only found in Positive Urgency, one of the UPPS-P subscales, in which the land-based gambling group scored higher than the online gambling group. In this exploratory study, individuals with online and land-based GD phenotypes did not differ either in difficulties in emotion regulation or in attentional and cognitive biases. However, land-based GD patients showed a higher tendency to succumb to strong impulses under the influence of positive emotions. These preliminary findings warrant the need to continue investigating GD phenotypes in larger patient samples.

Filiaciones:
Sancho, M:
 Hosp Santa Creu & Sant Pau, Dept Psychiat, Addict Behav Unit, Barcelona 08025, Spain

 Inst Invest Biomed St Pau, Barcelona 08025, Spain

Bonnaire, C:
 Univ Paris, Lab Psychopathol & Proc Sante, F-92100 Boulogne Billancourt, France

 Ctr Pierre Nicole, Youth Addict Care, F-75005 Paris, France

Costa, S:
 Hosp Santa Creu & Sant Pau, Dept Psychiat, Addict Behav Unit, Barcelona 08025, Spain

 Inst Invest Biomed St Pau, Barcelona 08025, Spain

Casale-Salayet, G:
 Hosp Santa Creu & Sant Pau, Dept Psychiat, Addict Behav Unit, Barcelona 08025, Spain

 Bellvitge Univ Hosp, Dept Psychiat, IDIBELL, Lhospitalet De Llobregat 08907, Spain

Vera-Igual, J:
 Hosp Santa Creu & Sant Pau, Dept Psychiat, Addict Behav Unit, Barcelona 08025, Spain

Rodriguez, RC:
 Delta del Llobregat Primary Care Serv, Mental Hlth Unit, Lhospitalet De Llobregat 08903, Spain

Duran-Sindreu, S:
 Hosp Santa Creu & Sant Pau, Dept Psychiat, Addict Behav Unit, Barcelona 08025, Spain

 Inst Invest Biomed St Pau, Barcelona 08025, Spain

 Inst Salud Carlos III, CIBER Salud Mental CIBERsam, Madrid 28029, Spain

Trujols, J:
 Hosp Santa Creu & Sant Pau, Dept Psychiat, Addict Behav Unit, Barcelona 08025, Spain

 Inst Invest Biomed St Pau, Barcelona 08025, Spain

 Inst Salud Carlos III, CIBER Salud Mental CIBERsam, Madrid 28029, Spain
ISSN: 16617827





International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Editorial
MDPI, ST ALBAN-ANLAGE 66, CH-4052 BASEL, SWITZERLAND, Suiza
Tipo de documento: Article
Volumen: 18 Número: 9
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WOS Id: 000650241400001
ID de PubMed: 34063619
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