Methods of assessing craving to gamble: A narrative review

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 536-549

  Ashrafioun, Lisham ^a   Rosenberg, Harold ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

assessment; craving, urges; pathological gambling

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMBLING CRAVING SCALE; GAMBLING PASSION SCALE; GAMBLING URGE QUESTIONNAIRE; GAMBLING URGE SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING YALE BROWN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SCALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PENN GAMBLING CRAVING SCALE; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RELIABILITY; RESPONSE TIME; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPTATION FOR GAMBLING QUESTIONNAIRE; VERBALIZATION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; AWARENESS; CONTROL; DRIVE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

AWARENESS; DRIVE; GAMBLING; GOALS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF-ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84875069514     PISSN: 0893164X     EISSN: 19391501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026367     Document Type: Review

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