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. 2021 Nov 3;18(21):11552. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182111552

Table 2.

Properties of the 18 selected harm items with respect to the full checklist.

Category Item PR (%) FN (%) STC (r) ITC (r)
Financial Reduction of my available spending money 6.3 6.23 0.694 0.694
Financial Less spending on recreational expenses such as eating out, going to movies or other entertainment 1.9 5.39 0.742 0.394
Financial Reduction of my savings 2.9 4.32 0.800 0.486
Work/Study Used my work or study time to gamble 0.5 3.82 0.801 0.216
Work/Study Reduced performance at work or study 1.0 3.77 0.825 0.281
Work/Study Used my work or study resources to gamble 0.2 3.72 0.828 0.130
Health Loss of sleep due to spending time gambling 0.8 3.58 0.831 0.267
Health Increased my use of tobacco 0.7 3.53 0.838 0.246
Health Increased experience of depression 0.8 3.53 0.841 0.261
Emotional/Psychological Had regrets that made me feel sorry about my gambling 1.4 3.20 0.858 0.346
Emotional/Psychological Felt like a failure 5.0 1.26 0.944 0.627
Emotional/Psychological Felt ashamed of my gambling 2.1 0.76 0.966 0.411
Relationships Spent less time with people I care about 0.8 0.64 0.971 0.264
Relationships Spent less time attending social events 0.5 0.62 0.972 0.218
Relationships Experienced greater tension in my relationships 0.4 0.55 0.976 0.184
Social deviance Reduced my contribution to community obligations 0.3 0.52 0.977 0.160
Social deviance Outcast from community due to involvement with gambling 0.3 0.52 0.977 0.171
Social deviance Promised to pay back money without genuinely intending to do so 0.3 0.52 0.977 0.151

PR percent positive responses, FN false negatives (incremental), STC subscale to 72-item total correlation (Spearman), ITC item 72-item total correlation.