Prevalence of gambling, depressive syntomps and cognitive distortions in university youth

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Belén del Valle Vera
Florencia Caneto
Francisco Benjamín Tuzinkievich
Javier Alejandro Garimaldi

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The aim of this paper was to analyze the presence of depressive symptoms and cognitive distortions in a sample of undergraduate students and investigate the possible relationship with severity of gambling disorders. To this aim, a sample of 277 local students (66.8 % women) between 18 and 35 years completed the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS), a Gambling Prevalence Questionnaire, the Gambling Belief Questionnaire Spanish Version (GBQ-S) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). No differences in depression symptoms were found depending on gambling frequency and SOGS´s scores. The presence of cognitive distortions in less severe forms of gambling disorders was corroborated. Cognitive distortions’ levels increased with increasing severity and frequency of gambling.

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Prevalence of gambling, depressive syntomps and cognitive distortions in university youth. (2014). Argentinean Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 6(2), 55-64. https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v6.n2.6361
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Prevalence of gambling, depressive syntomps and cognitive distortions in university youth. (2014). Argentinean Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 6(2), 55-64. https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v6.n2.6361