1. Differences in Perceived and Experienced Stigma Between Problematic Gamblers and Non-gamblers in a General Population Survey.
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Andrà, Chiara, Priolo, Gabriele, Merlin, Francesca, and Chiavarino, Claudia
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DEMOGRAPHIC surveys , *COMPULSIVE gambling , *SOCIAL stigma , *GAMBLERS , *HELP-seeking behavior , *SELF-evaluation - Abstract
We consider a sample of about 700 people, interviewed on the streets, who are sorted into two groups by a self-report, screening questionnaire: namely, non-problematic gamblers/non-gamblers and problematic gamblers. Within each group, we compare both social (perceived) stigma and self-perceived (experienced) stigma, measured by means of other two self-report questionnaires, and we seek for relations between stigma and socio-demographic variables that can help targeting possible interventions to reduce gambling-related stigma. We, then, compare stigma between the two groups of non-(problematic) gamblers and problematic ones, and we also check the hypothesis that higher social stigma is related to higher self-perceived stigma, as well as higher stigma is related to lesser help-seeking. The latter hypothesis is of utmost importance, given that stigma is recognised to be one of the major causes for hindering help-seeking by problematic gamblers. The research is carried out in Italy, one of the first countries in the world for the money spent per capita in gambling activity every year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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