Problem Gambling Family Impacts: Development of the Problem Gambling Family Impact Scale |
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| Authors: | N A Dowling A C Jackson T Lavis |
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| Institution: | 1.School of Psychology,Deakin University,Burwood,Australia;2.Melbourne Graduate School of Education,University of Melbourne,Melbourne,Australia;3.School of Psychological Sciences,Monash University,Clayton,Australia;4.Centre for Gambling Research, School of Sociology,Australian National University,Canberra,Australia;5.Student Learning Centre,Flinders University,Bedford Park,Australia;6.School of Medicine,Flinders University,Bedford Park,Australia |
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| Abstract: | Although family members of problem gamblers frequently present to treatment services, problem gambling family impacts are under-researched. The most commonly endorsed items on a new measure of gambling-related family impacts Problem Gambling Family Impact Measure (PG-FIM: Problem Gambler version)] by 212 treatment-seeking problem gamblers included trust (62.5 %), anger (61.8 %), depression or sadness (58.7 %), anxiety (57.7 %), distress due to gambling-related absences (56.1 %), reduced quality time (52.4 %), and communication breakdowns (52.4 %). The PG-FIM (Problem Gambler version) was comprised of three factors: (1) financial impacts, (2) increased responsibility impacts, and (3) psychosocial impacts with good psychometric properties. Younger, more impulsive, non-electronic gaming machine (EGM) gamblers who had more severe gambling problems reported more financial impacts; non-EGM gamblers with poorer general health reported more increased responsibility impacts; and more impulsive non-EGM gamblers with more psychological distress and higher gambling severity reported more psychosocial impacts. The findings have implications for the development of interventions for the family members of problem gamblers. |
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