Alex Blaszczynski
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5220323 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alex Blaszczynski |
| PRENOMES | Alex |
| SOBRENOME | Blaszczynski |
| ASSINATURA | BLASZCZYNSKI A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1476-0791 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The search term ‘suicide’ is being used to lead web browsers to online casinos
While Search Engine Optimisation seeks to enhance PageRankings, some methods are not approved or condoned by browser developers. To understand the risks faced by suicidal gamblers in the online environment, 2 studies examined the behaviour of an online search engine. A series of Google searches in 2021 used key terms such as ‘suicide’ and ‘gambling’ that might be employed by a suicidal gambler. During these searches browser ‘hits’ included opport…
Twenty Years of Responsible Gambling
Gamblin disorders Harm Minimization Science based evidenceMore than 20 years ago a group of scholars, gambling executives, and scientists gathered in Reno, Nevada to examine gambling activities in general and the adverse consequences associated with gambling in particular (Blaszczynski et al., 2004).This group established the goal of finding guidelines, processes, and procedures to achieve the objective of determining strategies and activities th…
Expert appraisal of criteria for assessing gaming disorder
Problematic risk-taking involving emerging technologies
Background and aims : Despite the many benefits of technological advancements, problematic use of emerging technologies may lead to consumers experiencing harms. Substantial problems and behavioral addictions, such as gambling and gaming disorders, are recognized to be related to Internet-based technologies, including the myriad of new devices and platforms available. This review paper seeks to explore problematic risk-taking behaviors involving …
Clarifying Responsible Gambling and its Concept of Responsibility
Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Comparative Exploratory Analysis of Individuals Electing to Continue or Discontinue Self-Exclusion from Land-Based Gambling Venues
Training gamblers to re-think their gambling choices
Are video games intrinsically addictive? An international online survey
The Relationship Between In-Play Betting and Gambling Problems in an Australian Context of Prohibited Online In-Play Betting
Internationally, Internet gambling is increasingly permitted under regulated licensing conditions; however, the specific products that are legal varies between jurisdictions. Online sports and race wagering are now legal in many jurisdictions, but in-play betting (also referred to as "live action" or "in-the-run" betting) is often restricted. In-play betting enables bets to be placed on an event after it has commenced. Prohibitionist policies oft…
Reducing Internet Gambling Harms Using Behavioral Science
Internet gambling provides a unique environment with design mechanics and data-driven opportunities that can impact gambling-related harms. Some elements of Internet gambling including isolation, lack of interruption, and constant, easy access have been argued to pose specific risks. However, identifiable player accounts enable identification of behavioral risk markers and personalized private interfaces to push customized messages and interventi…
Gambling Control and Public Health
Does Money Control Enhance the Effectiveness of CBT for Gambling Disorder
Considering the Public Health and Reno Models
What does it mean to recover from a gambling disorder? Perspectives of gambling help service users
Background: There is no consensus on how to best define recovery in gambling disorder. This minimizes clinicians’ abilities to apply optimal treatment goals and contributes to inconsistency in the use of outcome variables to evaluate interventions. Current understanding of recovery is largely based on professional opinion and theoretical models of gambling disorder. This study aimed to examine core features of recovery identified by service users…
Gambling related harms – community and clinical comparisons
Background: Large scale gambling research has traditionally used screening instruments such as the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) to determine prevalence rates and inform policy. Implicit within this approach is the assumption that scores on screening instruments are a proxy for the presence and severity of harms associated with gambling.Method: A sample of 99 clients attending a specialist gambling treatment clinic, and 330 regular gambl…
Isolating the impact of specific gambling activities and modes on problem gambling and psychological distress in internet gamblers
Background Gambling disorder is related to high overall gambling engagement; however specific activities and modalities are thought to have stronger relationships with gambling problems. This study aimed to isolate the relationship between specific gambling activities and modalities (Internet and venue/land-based) to gambling disorder and general psychological distress. Past-month Internet gamblers were the focus of this investigation because thi…
Examining the potential for therapeutic jurisprudence in cases of gambling-related criminal offending in Australia
Despite being recognised as an addiction in the psychological and legal domains, gambling disorder does not mitigate the culpability of perpetrators of gambling-related offences in Australia. This article will argue that this stance is misguided, as it is founded upon misconceptions about the nature of problem gambling, exaggerated emphasis upon certain sentencing principles over others and undue differentiation between drug and gambling addictio…
How can we conceptualize behavioural addiction without pathologizing common behaviours?
Following the recent changes to the diagnostic category for addictive disorders in DSM‐5, it is urgent to clarify what constitutes behavioural addiction to have a clear direction for future research and classification. However, in the years following the release of DSM‐5, an expanding body of research has increasingly classified engagement in a wide range of common behaviours and leisure activities as possible behavioural addiction. If this expan…
Truth, Alternative Facts, Narrative, and Science
Comparative Effects of Differing Media Presented Advertisements on Male Youth Gambling Attitudes and Intentions
Consumer engagement with and perceptions of offshore online gambling sites
Many jurisdictions have legalized and licensed online gambling sites. Nonetheless, a notable proportion of the online gambling market operates offshore. Offshore sites pose risks for consumers in terms of unsafe and disreputable practices, compete with domestically licensed sites and do not participate in the economies in which they operate. This study aimed to explore the extent to which Australian online gamblers use offshore as compared to dom…
The Longitudinal Relationships Between Psychiatric Disorders and Gambling Disorders
Responsible gambling
Many jurisdictions around the world have implemented Responsible Gambling (RG) programs for the purpose of preventing gambling-related harms. Using a research synthesis strategy, this paper examines the extant peer-reviewed empirical evidence underpinning RG strategies. Instead of reporting all available studies and then discarding many on the ground of methodological flaws, we used the following a priori set of inclusion criteria: (1) All studie…
Who Adopts Queer and Pansexual Sexual Identities
Some nonheterosexual individuals are eschewing lesbian/gay and bisexual identities for queer and pansexual identities. The present study aimed to examine the sexual and demographic characteristics of nonheterosexual individuals who adopt these labels. A convenience sample of 2,220 nonheterosexual (1,459 lesbian/gay, 413 bisexual, 168 queer, 146 pansexual, and 34 other "write-in") individuals were recruited for a cross-sectional online survey. In …
Extending the Reno model
The RENO Model, first published during 2004, described a science-based framework of responsible gambling principles for a range of industry operators, health service providers, community and consumer groups, and governments. These strategic principles serve as a guide for the adoption and implementation of responsible gambling and harm-minimization initiatives. This article extends the RENO Model core principles by describing how to apply these s…
Who Adopts Queer and Pansexual Sexual Identities
Some nonheterosexual individuals are eschewing lesbian/gay and bisexual identities for queer and pansexual identities. The present study aimed to examine the sexual and demographic characteristics of nonheterosexual individuals who adopt these labels. A convenience sample of 2,220 nonheterosexual (1,459 lesbian/gay, 413 bisexual, 168 queer, 146 pansexual, and 34 other "write-in") individuals were recruited for a cross-sectional online survey. In …
Autonomic responses of transsexual and homosexual males to erotic film sequences
Consumer engagement with and perceptions of offshore online gambling sites
Many jurisdictions have legalized and licensed online gambling sites. Nonetheless, a notable proportion of the online gambling market operates offshore. Offshore sites pose risks for consumers in terms of unsafe and disreputable practices, compete with domestically licensed sites and do not participate in the economies in which they operate. This study aimed to explore the extent to which Australian online gamblers use offshore as compared to dom…
How risky is Internet gambling? A comparison of subgroups of Internet gamblers based on problem gambling status
Internet gambling offers unique features that may facilitate the development or exacerbation of gambling disorders. Higher rates of disordered gambling have been found amongst Internet than with land-based gamblers; however little research has explored whether Internet disordered gamblers are a distinct subgroup. The current study compared problem with non-problem and at-risk Internet gamblers to understand further why some Internet gamblers expe…
A pair of monozygotic twins discordant for homosexuality
Psychological aspects of gambling behaviour
Gambling has always held a prominent place in the Australian cultural ethos. However, recent legislative changes have resulted in the expansion of new and existing forms of gambling within the community. This trend has met with stringent criticism from various community sectors, primarily health, welfare and Church organisations who express concern over the deleterious consequences produced by excessive gambling behaviour. This paper describes th…
Maintaining and losing control during internet gambling
This paper provides an in-depth exploration of the psychosocial factors and processes related to maintaining and losing control during internet gambling. It explores features of internet gambling leading to loss of control, control strategies used by internet gamblers, and the perceived utility of online responsible gambling measures. Interviews with 25 moderate risk and problem internet gamblers yielded rich first-person accounts analysed using …
Autonomic responses of transsexual and homosexual males to erotic film sequences
A pair of monozygotic twins discordant for homosexuality
SCL-90 Assessed Psychopathology in Pathological Gamblers
The SCL-90 was administered to 68 pathological gamblers receiving behavioural treatment for uncontrollable gambling to assess the degree of psychopathology present within this recently recognized psychiatric category. Consistent with the literature, pathological gamblers were characterized by high depression, t-test analyses showed pathological gamblers obtained significantly higher scores on all scales than those of normal controls. Five of the …
Resistance to treatment of adolescent sex offenders
Boredom Proneness in Pathological Gambling
To test the hypothesis that pathological gamblers seek stimulation as a means of reducing aversive under-aroused states of boredom and/or depression, the Beck Depression Inventory, Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale and a Boredom Proneness Scale were administered to 48 diagnosed pathological gamblers and a control group of 40 family physician patients. Analyses of variance showed pathological gamblers obtained significantly higher boredom pronen…
Boredom Proneness in Pathological Gambling
Pathological gambling secondary to brain trauma
Criminal offenses in gamblers anonymous and hospital treated pathological gamblers
Antisocial personality disorder and pathological gambling
Differences in preferred level of arousal in two sub-groups of problem gamblers
Cognitive and behavioral therapies for pathological gambling
The factorial structure of pathological gambling
“How Much Do You Spend Gambling?” Ambiguities in Survey Questionnaire Items
Personality Disorders Among Pathological Gamblers
Problem Gambling Within a Chinese Speaking Community
A Case Series of 44 Completed Gambling-Related Suicides
Pathological Gambling and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
To test the hypothesis that pathological gambling can be classified as an Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorder, the Padua Inventory was administered to 40 diagnosed pathological gamblers and a control group of 40 normal subjects. Analysis showed that the pathological gamblers obtained a significantly higher mean total score on obsessionality than controls. Elevated scores on two factors reflecting impaired control of mental activities and loss …
Psychological aspects of gambling behaviour
Gambling has always held a prominent place in the Australian cultural ethos. However, recent legislative changes have resulted in the expansion of new and existing forms of gambling within the community. This trend has met with stringent criticism from various community sectors, primarily health, welfare and Church organisations who express concern over the deleterious consequences produced by excessive gambling behaviour. This paper describes th…
A pathways model of problem and pathological gambling
At the moment, there is no single conceptual theoretical model of gambling that adequately accounts for the multiple biological, psychological and ecological variables contributing to the development of pathological gambling. Advances in this area are hampered by imprecise definitions of pathological gambling, failure to distinguish between gambling problems and problem gamblers and a tendency to assume that pathological gamblers form one, homoge…
Differences in Cognitive Distortions between Problem and Social Gamblers
The cognitive model of gambling argues that irrational beliefs and erroneous perceptions including illusions of control, superstitious beliefs, expectancies of winning, attributional biases, selective memory, and entrapment play a pivotal role in the development and maintenance of impaired control over patterns of gambling behaviours. Assessment strategies using self-report, behavioural inferences, and verbalizations produced by 'thinking aloud' …
Superstitious Beliefs in Gambling Among Problem and Non-Problem Gamblers
A Science-Based Framework for Responsible Gambling
Structural Changes to Electronic Gaming Machines as Effective Harm Minimization Strategies for Non-Problem and Problem Gamblers
Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Treatment Outcome Research
Characteristics and Gender Differences Among Self-Excluded Casino Problem Gamblers
Psychology (61 obras) · Gambling Behavior and Treatments (55 obras) · Medicine (37 obras) · Psychiatry (37 obras) · Social Psychology (34 obras) · Clinical Psychology (33 obras) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (32 obras) · Social Psychology (18 obras) · Addiction (15 obras) · Computer Science (15 obras)