Instrumental tool or drug: Relationship between attitudes to money and problem gambling

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 681-691

  Blaszczynski, Alex ^a   Nower, Lia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Rutgers The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Addictions; Attitudes to money; Impulse control disorders; Pathological gambling; Problem gambling; Theoretical models of gambling

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049467443     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066351003786752     Document Type: Article

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