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Subtypes of Pathological Gambling with Concurrent Illegal Behaviors

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The aims of this study are: to explore empirical clusters in a sample of individuals with a gambling disorder (GD) according to the presence of illegal behaviors, to describe the subgroups at a clinical level and to examine whether a temporal change has taken place across the last 9 years. The sample consisted of 378 patients with a GD who consecutively received outpatient treatment, and who reported the presence of the DSM-IV criteria “presence of illegal behavior”. Two-step clustering procedure revealed the existence of four empirical groups, which differed in both sociodemographic and clinical profiles. The patients, who have committed illegal acts due to their gambling behavior, are a heterogeneous group in which it is possible to identify different subtypes, based on sociodemographic, psychopathological, clinical and personality characteristics.

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Financial support was received from Ministry of Science and Innovation Grant (PSI2011-28349), FIS PI11/210 and CIBER Fisiología Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn) and CIBER Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), both are initiatives of ISCIII.

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  1. Departament de Psicobiologia i Metodologia de les Ciències de la Salut, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Roser Granero & Salomé Tàrrega

  2. CIBER Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain

    Roser Granero, Fernando Fernández-Aranda, Ana Beatriz Fagundo, Mohammed A. Islam & Susana Jiménez-Murcia

  3. Pathological Gambling Unit, Department of Psychiatry, IDIBELL, University Hospital of Bellvitge, Feixa Llarga, s/n. 08907-L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

    Fernando Fernández-Aranda, Neus Aymamí, Mónica Gómez-Peña, Ana Beatriz Fagundo, Sarah Sauchelli, Amparo del Pino-Gutiérrez, Laura Moragas, Lamprini G. Savvidou, Mohammed A. Islam, José M. Menchón & Susana Jiménez-Murcia

  4. Department of Clinical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Fernando Fernández-Aranda, José M. Menchón & Susana Jiménez-Murcia

  5. Department of Public Health, Mental Health and Mother-Infant Nursing, University School of Nursing, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Amparo del Pino-Gutiérrez

  6. CIBER Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain

    José M. Menchón

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Granero, R., Fernández-Aranda, F., Aymamí, N. et al. Subtypes of Pathological Gambling with Concurrent Illegal Behaviors. J Gambl Stud 31, 1161–1178 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-014-9499-5

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