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The Catalonia survey: Personality and intelligence structure in a sample of compulsive gamblers

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A sample of fifty-seven pathological gamblers and one hundred and fifteen controls (two per pathological gambler, matched as regards age and sex) was investigated. This sample received a complex battery of psychometric tests designed to evaluate two different axes: psychopathology and intelligence. The results obtained show that pathological gamblers have an unstable family and work background, that pathological gambling correlates with other addictions (alcohol, illness prone behavior, absenteeism, risk working, living alone and bereavement), that all the general and specific psychopathology vectors were significant in the addicts, and that the pathological gamblers' intelligence has characteristic factors.

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  1. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

    Angel Martínez-Pina Ph.D.

  2. Casinos de Catalunya, Barcelona

    José Luis Guirao de Parga M.B.A.

  3. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

    Rafael Fusté i Vallverdú Ph.D., Xavier Serrat Planas Ph.D., Miguel Martín Mateo & Víctor Moreno Aguado Ph.D.

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We thank Ricardo Cayuela (Line Staff, Barcelona) for his help in collecting the sample; Jordi Daura for data processing work; Mercedes Lemonier, psychologist, for her help in administering and correcting the tests; Consol Marina and Teresa Ruiz for their secretarial assistance and contact with the 172 study subjects.

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Martínez-Pina, A., de Parga, J.L.G., Vallverdú, R.F.i. et al. The Catalonia survey: Personality and intelligence structure in a sample of compulsive gamblers. J Gambling Stud 7, 275–299 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01023747

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