The Sydney Laval Universities Gambling Screen: Preliminary data

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 401-411

  Blaszczynski, Alex ^a   Ladouceur, Robert ^b   Moodie, Crawford ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gambling instrument; Gambling measures; Gambling screen; Pathological gambling; Prevalence rate; Problem gambling

Indexed keywords

EID: 50149120734     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16066350701699031     Document Type: Article

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