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Gambling is an activity in which something of value is risked on the outcome of an event when the probability of winning or losing is less than certain.
Gambling disorder is a psychiatric disorder characterized by persistent and recurrent problematic gambling behavior leading to clinically significant impairment or distress as indicated by exhibiting a constellation of symptoms, such as (a) being preoccupied with reliving past gambling experiences, handicapping or planning the next venture, or thinking of ways to get money with which to gamble, (b) needing to gamble with increasing amounts of money in order to achieve the desired excitement, and (c) after losing money gambling, often returning another day to get even (“chasing” one’s losses) (American Psychiatric Association 2013).
Big 5 personality traitsare a taxonomy of dimensions of personality in which individual differences are summarized by the five broad factors of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness,...
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Slutske, W.S. (2018). Personality and Gambling. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2110-1
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