| Preface | p. ix |
| Declaration | p. xi |
| Executive Summary | p. xiii |
| Glossary | p. xv |
| Foreword | p. xvii |
| List of Tables | p. xxv |
| List of Figures | p. xxvii |
| The Research Context | p. 1 |
| Contemporary Gambling Worldwide | p. 1 |
| Historical Themes | p. 2 |
| Definitions of Gambling | p. 7 |
| Legalised Forms of Gambling and their Consumption | p. 8 |
| Consumption of Gambling | p. 9 |
| Definitions: Excessive, Problem and Pathological Gambling | p. 10 |
| Excessive Gambling | p. 10 |
| Problem Gambling | p. 11 |
| Pathological Gambling | p. 11 |
| Measures of Excessive, Problem and Pathological Gambling | p. 13 |
| Prevalence of Problem Gambling | p. 15 |
| Risk Factors: Emerging Causal Themes | p. 16 |
| Access and Continuous Forms | p. 17 |
| Research Requirements | p. 20 |
| Research into Impaired Control of Gambling Behaviour, Definition and Measurement: Traditional Psychometric and Mathematical Psychology Approaches | p. 22 |
| Gambling as One of the Addictions | p. 22 |
| Problem Gambling as the Dependent Variable | p. 25 |
| Self-Control as the Dependent Variable in Problem Gambling Research | p. 26 |
| The Development of the Scale of Gambling Choices | p. 28 |
| Independent Confirmation of the Dimension of Self-Control of Gambling Behaviour | p. 32 |
| The Subjective Control Scale of Control Over Urges to Gamble | p. 32 |
| A Qualitative Study of Self-Control in Youth Gamblers | p. 34 |
| No Specific Limits (N = 3) | p. 35 |
| Target Limits (N = 12, plus N = 5 who revise limits once only) | p. 37 |
| Contingency Limits: Continually Revising or Setting Vague or Broad Limits (N = 14) | p. 37 |
| Emotions and the Ability to Self-Regulate Gambling | p. 38 |
| Reported Harmful Impacts and the Ability to Self-Regulate | p. 38 |
| The Relationship Between Impaired Control and Chasing | p. 39 |
| Impaired Control and Different Forms of Gambling | p. 41 |
| Progress in the Measurement and Definition of Impaired Control of Gambling Behaviour | p. 43 |
| The SGC 12-Items | p. 44 |
| Reliability | p. 44 |
| Validity | p. 44 |
| Impaired Control and its Relationship to other Variables Implicated in the Development of Pathological Gambling | p. 46 |
| Initial Thoughts on Modelling Impaired Self-Control: Key Variables | p. 46 |
| A Developmental Perspective on Impaired Control of Gambling | p. 46 |
| Psychosocial Maturity, Self-Regulation and Reported Harmful Impacts of Gambling | p. 47 |
| The Key Variables in Modelling Impaired Control | p. 49 |
| Gambling Involvement | p. 49 |
| Prior Mood and Emotion while Gambling | p. 62 |
| Personality | p. 67 |
| Alcohol | p. 68 |
| The Role of Cognitive Variables | p. 74 |
| The Role of Coping | p. 80 |
| A Conceptual Basis for Modelling Impaired Self-Control of Gambling | p. 81 |
| Models of Impaired Self-Control of Gambling | p. 83 |
| Empirical Model of EGM Play | p. 83 |
| Main Study (O'Connor et al., 2005) | p. 85 |
| Method | p. 87 |
| Materials | p. 88 |
| Descriptive Results for Main Variables | p. 88 |
| Summary of Regression Analyses | p. 89 |
| Critical Comment on Methodology | p. 90 |
| Discussion of Empirical Findings | p. 91 |
| Theoretical Speculations | p. 92 |
| Modelling Impaired Self-Control: A Model of Gambling Temptation - Restraint | p. 93 |
| Data Collection | p. 95 |
| Sample Characteristics | p. 95 |
| Discussion of the Two Approaches to Exploring Impaired Self-Control | p. 98 |
| Implications for Treatment Approaches to Problem Gambling Arising from the Model of Impaired Control | p. 100 |
| Do Existing Treatments Work? Conclusions from Treatment Literature Reviews | p. 100 |
| The Bio-psychosocial Model as a Basis for Treatment | p. 101 |
| Implications of the Model of Impaired Control for Treatment Methods | p. 103 |
| Implications for Treatment Goals | p. 105 |
| Implications for Harm Minimisation in the Management of Problem Gambling: Making Sense of "Responsible Gambling" | p. 107 |
| Harm Minimisation and Gambling | p. 107 |
| Educational Strategies | p. 109 |
| Preventing Problem Gamblers from Further Harm | p. 111 |
| Rendering the Process of Gambling Safer for all Consumers | p. 112 |
| Impaired Control of Regular Gamblers: A Social and Consumer Protection Issue | p. 118 |
| A Case Study of "Responsible Gambling" Strategies within a Single Jurisdiction: Victoria, Australia | p. 124 |
| The Introduction of Gaming Machines | p. 124 |
| The Victorian Problem Gambling Services Strategy | p. 127 |
| Problem Gambling Community Education Campaigns | p. 127 |
| Direct Treatment Services | p. 129 |
| Harm Minimisation | p. 133 |
| Research | p. 135 |
| Victoria: A Successful Public Health Approach or a Failure of Consumer Protection? | p. 136 |
| Conclusions | p. 138 |
| Impaired Self-Control of Gambling | p. 138 |
| Measurement | p. 138 |
| Key Psychological Variables | p. 139 |
| Cognitions and Chasing | p. 140 |
| In the Present Context | p. 140 |
| On the Nature of Impaired Self-control of Gambling | p. 140 |
| Implications for Pathological Gambling | p. 145 |
| Implications for Problem Gambling Policy | p. 147 |
| Implications for Addiction | p. 148 |
| References | p. 152 |
| Index | p. 173 |
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