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. 2021 Oct 21;18(21):11085. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182111085

Table 1.

Descriptive for the sample.

Gambling
(n = 4103)
Gaming
(n = 99)
Sex
(n = 44)
Buying
(n = 158)
n % n % n % n % p
Gender Women 361 8.8% 7 7.1% 1 2.3% 118 74.7% <0.001 *
Men 3742 91.2% 92 92.9% 43 97.7% 40 25.3%
Marital Single 1676 40.8% 90 90.9% 12 27.3% 62 39.2% <0.001 *
Married/
Partner
1876 45.7% 8 8.1% 24 54.5% 72 45.6%
Divorced/
Separated
551 13.4% 1 1.0% 8 18.2% 24 15.2%
Social Mean-high
to high
248 6.0% 4 4.0% 10 22.7% 27 17.1% <0.001 *
Mean 428 10.4% 13 13.1% 6 13.6% 20 12.7%
Mean-low 1304 31.8% 26 26.3% 15 34.1% 45 28.5%
Low 2123 51.7% 56 56.6% 13 29.5% 66 41.8%
Education Primary 2399 58.5% 49 49.5% 12 27.3% 60 38.0% <0.001 *
Secondary 1449 35.3% 41 41.4% 19 43.2% 64 40.5%
University 255 6.2% 9 9.1% 13 29.5% 34 21.5%
Occupational Unemployment 1797 43.8% 79 79.8% 13 29.5% 83 52.5% <0.001 *
Employed 2306 56.2% 20 20.2% 31 70.5% 75 47.5%
Family support No/partial 1014 24.7% 11 11.1% 16 36.4% 55 34.8% <0.001 *
Yes 3089 75.3% 88 88.9% 28 63.6% 103 65.2%

Debts due to beh.add.

No

765

18.6%

70

70.7%

30

68.2%

48

30.4%

<0.001 *
Yes 3338 81.4% 29 29.3% 14 31.8% 110 69.6%
α Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD p
Chronological age (years-old) 42.46 13.77 23.03 9.73 43.07 11.81 43.43 11.52 <0.001 *
Onset of disorder (years-old) 30.23 12.11 18.40 8.74 32.89 12.81 33.75 12.17 <0.001 *
Duration of disorder (years) 6.10 6.08 3.99 2.84 6.34 5.66 7.03 6.20 0.001 *
SCL-90R Somatic 0.908 0.96 0.79 0.63 0.66 1.01 0.82 1.46 1.02 <0.001 *
SCL-90R Obsessive-compulsive 0.884 1.15 0.80 1.08 0.76 1.48 0.99 1.87 1.01 <0.001 *
SCL-90R Interpersonal sensit. 0.876 1.03 0.81 1.11 0.97 1.31 0.88 1.58 1.05 <0.001 *
SCL-90R Depression 0.913 1.51 0.89 1.06 0.91 1.68 0.97 2.11 1.04 <0.001 *
SCL-90R Anxiety 0.897 1.02 0.80 0.70 0.71 1.20 0.93 1.56 1.06 <0.001 *
SCL-90R Hostility 0.853 0.92 0.82 0.96 0.88 1.16 1.01 1.33 1.04 <0.001 *
SCL-90R Phobic anxiety 0.829 0.49 0.66 0.40 0.66 0.53 0.69 0.96 1.05 <0.001 *
SCL-90R Paranoia 0.789 0.93 0.77 1.01 0.92 1.14 0.85 1.38 0.97 <0.001 *
SCL-90R Psychotic 0.860 0.91 0.75 0.64 0.71 1.33 0.88 1.17 0.88 <0.001 *
SCL-90R GSI 0.981 1.06 0.69 0.86 0.68 1.27 0.78 1.57 0.88 <0.001 *
SCL-90R PST 0.981 46.18 21.69 38.02 20.38 51.18 23.25 55.77 21.07 <0.001 *
SCL-90R PSDI 0.981 1.89 0.59 1.81 0.62 2.11 0.59 2.35 0.68 <0.001 *
TCI-R Novelty seeking 0.702 109.24 13.12 102.19 12.93 107.34 14.84 114.05 14.01 <0.001 *
TCI-R Harm avoidance 0.818 100.81 15.81 102.26 18.69 102.70 16.10 110.89 18.75 <0.001 *
TCI-R Reward dependence 0.772 98.16 13.61 93.32 17.03 97.91 16.20 101.98 15.40 <0.001 *
TCI-R Persistence 0.886 108.23 18.50 94.75 18.53 104.36 20.52 106.37 17.03 <0.001 *
TCI-R Self-directedness 0.856 127.48 19.87 128.30 22.03 120.16 20.21 123.89 22.07 0.013 *
TCI-R Cooperativeness 0.806 130.22 15.13 129.47 18.47 124.93 16.17 132.91 15.29 0.015 *
TCI-R Self-transcendence 0.831 63.47 14.07 59.82 14.83 63.32 14.40 65.54 15.32 0.019 *

Note. SD: standard deviation. α: Cronbach alpha in the sample. * Bold: significant comparison (0.05).