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. 2021 Feb 2;10(3):549. doi: 10.3390/jcm10030549

Table 2.

“Unimpeachable” gambling harms scale (UGHS) items. Category of harm, minimum single-sample prevalence, and Pearson’s correlations (r) with PGSI scores are shown.

# Harm Category Min Prev. (%) Min Prev. (n) PGSI (r)
(1) Late payments on bills Financial 7.4% 113 0.42 *
(2) Less spending on essential expenses Financial 4.6% 70 0.41 *
(3) Social isolation Relationships 4.0% 61 0.40 *
(4) Greater tension in my relationships Relationships 6.6% 101 0.46 *
(5) Felt insecure or vulnerable Psychological 7.3% 111 0.46 *
(6) Felt worthless Psychological 7.6% 116 0.47 *
(7) Loss of sleep due to time gambling Health 9.1% 139 0.42 *
(8) Did not eat as much/often as I should Health 5.6% 85 0.35 *
(9) Was absent from work or study Work/Study 4.7% 72 0.35 *
(10) Did not fully attend to children Deviance 3.0% 46 0.22 *

Items did not have a prevalence greater than category median. * p < 0.001.