Author:
Bristow Lindsay A.,Afifi Tracie O.,Salmon Samantha,Katz Laurence Y.
Abstract
AbstractProblem gambling and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are highly co-morbid and lead to numerous adverse health outcomes. Research demonstrates that greater levels of well-being protect individuals from experiencing ACE-related harms after a history of childhood adversity; however, this relationship has not been examined in the gambling literature. We hypothesized that individuals who experienced ACEs would engage in more problem gambling behaviors. We also hypothesized that individuals who experienced ACEs and reported flourishing mental health would have lower rates of problem gambling than individuals who experienced ACEs but did not report flourishing mental health. We conducted a secondary data analysis of the adult sample in the Well-Being and Experiences (WE) Study. Examining a parent population, parents and caregivers (N = 1000; Mage = 45.2 years; 86.5% female) of adolescents were interviewed on a variety of measures, including their history of ACEs, their gambling behaviors within the past year, and their mental health and well-being. We used multinomial logistic regression analysis to examine the relationship between 15 ACEs and gambling type (i.e., non-gambler, non-problem gambler, at-risk/problem gambler). We used interaction terms between each ACE and mental health to examine the moderating role of flourishing mental health and well-being. ACEs were associated with at-risk/problem gambling supporting hypothesis 1. Contrary to hypothesis 2, overall, flourishing mental health did not moderate the relationship between ACEs and gambling severity except for one ACE. In this study, we were able to gain a better understanding of how different ACEs each contribute to varying levels of gambling severity.
Funder
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Childhood Adversity and Resilience at the University of Manitoba
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Foundation Scheme Award
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Gold Leaf Award
Royal-Mach-Gaensslen Prize for Mental Health Research
H. T. Thorlakson Foundation
Manitoba Medical Services Foundation
Dean, College of Medicine, University of Manitoba
Vice-Dean, Research Rady FHS, University of Manitoba
Research Manitoba
Health Sciences Centre Research Foundation
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
General Psychology,Sociology and Political Science
Cited by
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