OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to explore empirical clusters within the population of young Spanish individuals attending outpatient pathological gambling treatment. METHOD: The South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS), the Symptom Checklist (SCL-90-R), the Temperament and Character Inventory-R (TCI-R) and other clinical and psychopathological measures were administered to 154 patients (between 17 and 25 years old). The two-step cluster analysis explored the presence of empirical heterogeneous groups based on clinical and socio-demographic characteristics. RESULTS: Three clusters of young pathological gambling patients emerged. Type I showed less psychopathology and more functional personality traits. Type II showed a profile characterized by major emotional distress, shame, immaturity, hostility and negative feelings. Type III showed the most severe psychopathological profile and most psychopathological disturbances and schizotypal traits. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that three distinct endophenotypes exist, and that environmental factors have a stronger influence in the first, while in the second and third, individual factors related to deficits of emotional regulation stand out.
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to explore empirical clusters within the population of young Spanish individuals attending outpatient pathological gambling treatment. METHOD: The South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS), the Symptom Checklist (SCL-90-R), the Temperament and Character Inventory-R (TCI-R) and other clinical and psychopathological measures were administered to 154 patients (between 17 and 25 years old). The two-step cluster analysis explored the presence of empirical heterogeneous groups based on clinical and socio-demographic characteristics. RESULTS: Three clusters of young pathological gambling patients emerged. Type I showed less psychopathology and more functional personality traits. Type II showed a profile characterized by major emotional distress, shame, immaturity, hostility and negative feelings. Type III showed the most severe psychopathological profile and most psychopathological disturbances and schizotypal traits. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that three distinct endophenotypes exist, and that environmental factors have a stronger influence in the first, while in the second and third, individual factors related to deficits of emotional regulation stand out.
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Authors: Ines Wolz; Ines Hilker; Roser Granero; Susana Jiménez-Murcia; Ashley N Gearhardt; Carlos Dieguez; Felipe F Casanueva; Ana B Crujeiras; José M Menchón; Fernando Fernández-Aranda Journal: Front Psychol Date: 2016-02-02
Authors: N Aymamí; S Jiménez-Murcia; R Granero; J A Ramos-Quiroga; F Fernández-Aranda; L Claes; A Sauvaget; M Grall-Bronnec; M Gómez-Peña; L G Savvidou; A B Fagundo; A del Pino-Gutierrez; L Moragas; M Casas; E Penelo; J M Menchón Journal: Biomed Res Int Date: 2015-07-01 Impact factor: 3.411
Authors: Salomé Tárrega; Laia Castro-Carreras; Fernando Fernández-Aranda; Roser Granero; Cristina Giner-Bartolomé; Neus Aymamí; Mónica Gómez-Peña; Juan J Santamaría; Laura Forcano; Trevor Steward; José M Menchón; Susana Jiménez-Murcia Journal: Front Psychol Date: 2015-11-12