Table 2.
Impulsive Behaviors in 194 Young Adults Gamblers
| Low Emotion Dysregulation (N=26) |
Average Emotion Dysregulation (N=141) |
High Emotion Dysregulation (N=27) |
Person
Chi Square/ F-Statistic |
DF | P- Value |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Money lost due to gambling in the past 3 months, Mean ± St. Dev. | $79.06 ±97.61 | $128.70 ±338.60 | $145.53 ±275.87 | 0.210FS | 2, 193 | 0.811 |
| Average number of minutes gambled per gambling episode, Mean ± St. Dev. | 168.75 ± 114.83 | 150.12 ±286.32 | 163.00 ±96.69 | 0.047 FS | 2, 193 | 0.954 |
| PG-YBOCS total score, Mean ± St. Dev. | 2.72 ±2.390 | 2.54 ±2.781 | 2.68 ±2.479 | 0.066 FS | 2, 193 | 0.936 |
| Number of SCI-PG criteria met, N (%) 0 | 18 (69.23%) | 92 (65.25%) | 14 (51.85%) | |||
| 1 | 7 (26.92%) | 41 (29.08%) | 13 (48.15%) | 0.570W | 8 | 0.752 |
| 2 | 1 (3.85%) | 8 (5.67%) | 0 (0.00%) | |||
| Current alcohol user, N (%) | 16 (61.54%) | 100 (70.92%) | 18 (66.67%) | 0.990χ | 2 | 0.610 |
| Days per week of alcohol consumption, Mean ± St. Dev. | 1.24 ± 1.41 | 1.13 ± 1.25 | 1.13 ± 1.64 | 0.070χ | 2 | 0.932 |
| Current cannabis user, N (%) | 3 (11.54%) | 19 (13.48%) | 6 (22.22%) | NA | NA | 0.428 F |
| Current smoker, N (%) | 3 (11.54%) | 20 (14.18%) | 4 (14.81%) | NA | NA | 1.000F |
| Presence of an impulse control disorder*, N (%) | 2 (1.15%) | 12 (6.90%) | 1 (0.57%) | NA | NA | 0.907 F |
*
Only 174 subjects completed the Minnesota Impulsive Disorder Interview (self-report scale assessing for presence of compulsive shopping, kleptomania, trichotillomania, lifetime violence, fire-setting, and sexual obsessions) at baseline
F
– Fisher's Exact Test;
FS
– F-Statistic;
χ
– Pearson Chi-Squared;
W
– Wald Chi-Squared
Abbreviations: PG-YBOCS – Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale for Pathological Gambling; SCI-PG – Structured Clinical Interview for Pathological Gambling; df – degrees of freedom