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Financially Focused Self-Concept And Disordered Gambling Severity Are Bidirectionally Related Over Time, Nassim Tabri, Michael Wohl
Financially Focused Self-Concept And Disordered Gambling Severity Are Bidirectionally Related Over Time, Nassim Tabri, Michael Wohl
International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking
Abstract:
Financially focused self-concept refers to overvaluing the importance of financial success for self-definition and self-worth (e.g., “My value as a person depends upon the amount of money I have”). Theory suggests financially focused self-concept plays a pernicious role in the etiology and maintenance of disordered gambling. Providing support for this supposition, recent research has demonstrated as positive association between financially focused self-concept and disordered gambling symptomatology—an association that is independent of known etiological and maintenance factors. Critically, the extant research on link between financially focused self-concept and disordered gambling has been cross-sectional, which limits the ability to draw causal …