Motivations of Pathological Gamblers

According to the National Public Opinion Research Center (NORC), the National Game Impact Study Council (NGISC) noted that 2.5 million people are pathological gambler and 3 million more are considered problem gambler did. It can be thought that more things are "in danger" (NORC, 1999). Despite harmful negative consequences, or pathological gambler is a man with a serious and unwieldy impulse to gambling.

Money is not the only motive of sick gambler. Likewise, some gambling gambling experiences are exciting, fun and exciting, but others gamble to try to learn or understand new things (Chantal, Valler and and Vallieres, 1995). This is the case of gamblers who want to collect data from previous races and predict the outcome of the new race (Chantal, Vallerand and Vallieres, 1995). Men's pathological gambler is most often motivated by money, but women are often motivated by human relations issues (Medical Post, 1998). As expected, men trying to quit gambling addiction relapse for money (Medical Post, 1998). On the other hand, women often relapse due to emotional problems (Medical Post, 1998). Male recurrence is more long-term, but women's recurrence is shorter (Medical Post, 1998). The pathological gambler is described as follows.

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Many pathological gambler families have various financial, physical and emotional problems (Abbott et al., 1995; Boreham et al., 1996; Lorenz and Yafee, 1986). The economic impact of living with a pathological gambler includes poor credibility, legal problems, and complete bankruptcy. Lorenz and Shuttlesworth (1983) investigated spouses of spouses of Gam-Anon, one of the family of Gamblers Anonymous. Most of them had serious emotional problems and were dependent on drinking. Smoking, eating too much, impulsive consumption. In a similar study, Lorenz and Yaffee (1988) reported that in addition to anger, depression, isolated emotional problems spouse of ill gambler also suffered from chronic or severe headaches, stomach problems, dizziness, dyspnea I have been found to be suffering from. Forcing a gambler's child increases the likelihood of smoking, drinking and drug use