Probability discounting among gamblers: Differences across problem gambling severity and affect-regulation expectancies

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 536-541

  Shead, N Will ^a   Callan, Mitchell J ^b   Hodgins, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affect regulation expectancies; Probability discounting; Problem gambling

Indexed keywords

EID: 49349103348     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.06.008     Document Type: Article

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