PMID- 18551886
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20080708
LR  - 20151119
IS  - 1055-0887 (Print)
IS  - 1055-0887 (Linking)
VI  - 27
IP  - 1
DP  - 2008
TI  - Personality traits and disorders in pathological gamblers versus normal controls.
PG  - 33-40
LID - 10.1300/J069v27n01_04 [doi]
AB  - AIMS: To establish the personality traits and disorders of pathological gamblers 
      in treatment by means of a descriptive cross-sectional study of two prospective 
      matched-pair cohorts: 50 pathological gamblers versus a control group of 50 
      normal volunteers (non-patient and non-pathological gamblers). All the 
      pathological gamblers of the sample followed treatment as out-patients in the 
      province of Valencia (Spain-EU). Recruitment period: January-May 2004. MEASURE 
      INSTRUMENTS: South Oaks Gambling Screen, Barratt Impulsivity Scale, Sensation 
      Seeking Scale, and Structured Clinical Interview for Personality Disorders of 
      Axis II of DSM-IV. FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS: Male pathological gamblers go more 
      often to health and social care facilities. Pathological gamblers prefer to play 
      slot machines, present a higher prevalence of personality disorders, most of them 
      belonging to cluster B, are more impulsive and higher sensation seekers than the 
      controls. There are no linear relationships between the severity of pathological 
      gambling and the traits of impulsivity and sensation seeking respectively.
FAU - Saez-Abad, Cristina
AU  - Saez-Abad C
AD  - Unit of Mental Health of Torrente (Valencia), Health Department 9, Valencian 
      Health Agency, Spain.
FAU - Bertolin-Guillen, Jose Manuel
AU  - Bertolin-Guillen JM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - J Addict Dis
JT  - Journal of addictive diseases
JID - 9107051
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - *Character
MH  - Cohort Studies
MH  - Comorbidity
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct 
      Disorders/diagnosis/epidemiology/psychology
MH  - Exploratory Behavior
MH  - Female
MH  - Gambling/*psychology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Patient Acceptance of Health Care/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Personality Disorders/*diagnosis/epidemiology/psychology
MH  - Prospective Studies
MH  - Spain
EDAT- 2008/06/17 09:00
MHDA- 2008/07/09 09:00
CRDT- 2008/06/17 09:00
PHST- 2008/06/17 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/07/09 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2008/06/17 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1300/J069v27n01_04 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Addict Dis. 2008;27(1):33-40. doi: 10.1300/J069v27n01_04.