Chasing losses in online poker and casino games: Characteristics and game play of Internet gamblers at risk of disordered gambling

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 217, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 220-225

  Gainsbury, Sally M ^a   Suhonen, Niko ^b   Saastamoinen, Jani ^b  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Addiction; Behavioural marker; Chasing losses; Disordered gambling; Internet poker; Irrational thoughts; Online casino

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR; CANADA; CASINO; CHASING LOSSESS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EXCITEMENT; FEMALE; GAMBLING; GAME; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERNET ADDICTION; IRRATIONAL BELIEF; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; POKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BELIEF; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM; ADOLESCENT; ECONOMICS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; RECREATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECREATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900009090     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.03.033     Document Type: Article

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