The lived experience of gambling-related harm in natural language.

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI:10.1037/adb0001030

Simon T van Baal,Piotr Bogdanski,Araanya Daryanani,Lukasz Walasek,Philip Newall

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OBJECTIVE Gambling-related harms can have a significant negative impact on disordered gamblers, lower risk gamblers, and affected others. Yet, most disordered and lower risk gamblers will never seek formal treatment, often due to the stigma and shame surrounding gambling. Online self-help forums are a popular alternative way for gamblers to anonymously seek help from others. Analysis of these interactions can provide a deeper understanding of gambling than more commonly used research methodologies. METHOD In the present study, we leverage recent developments in natural language processing to analyze posts on a U.K.-based online self-help gambling forum. Using correlated topic modeling, we canvass the various types of discussions among forum members. We also combine this approach with semantic similarity analysis based on sentence embeddings, to map first the posts, and then the 10 topics, onto six previously established gambling-related harm domains. RESULTS The topic modeling revealed a cluster of discussions of many negative emotions, a topic regarding the positive emotions underlying the potential for change, a distinct topic regarding gambling's relationship harms, and numerous environmental factors that contributed to harm. Emotional/psychological and health harms were most strongly associated with users' posts, illustrating the multidimensionality of severe gambling-related harm. CONCLUSIONS Our results reveal the co-occurrence of different harms, such as the frequent mentions of financial harms and concomitant emotional/psychological harms. The analysis of the lived experiences of gambling-related harm in natural language represents a useful tool for gambling research and can provide a different perspective to inform policy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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目的与赌博有关的危害会对赌博失调者、低风险赌博者和受影响的其他人造成严重的负面影响。然而，由于赌博带来的耻辱感和羞耻感，大多数赌博失调者和低风险赌博者永远不会寻求正规治疗。网上自助论坛是赌徒匿名寻求他人帮助的另一种流行方式。在本研究中，我们利用自然语言处理技术的最新发展来分析英国在线自助赌博论坛上的帖子。通过相关主题建模，我们调查了论坛成员之间的各种讨论类型。我们还将这种方法与基于句子嵌入的语义相似性分析相结合，首先将帖子，然后将 10 个主题，映射到之前建立的六个与赌博相关的危害领域。结果主题建模揭示了一个关于许多负面情绪的讨论集群，一个关于潜在改变的积极情绪的主题，一个关于赌博的关系危害的独特主题，以及许多造成危害的环境因素。情感/心理和健康危害与用户帖子的关联度最高，说明了与赌博相关的严重危害的多面性。用自然语言分析与赌博相关的伤害的生活经验是赌博研究的有用工具，可以为政策提供不同的视角。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, 版权所有）。

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Psychology of Addictive Behaviors Multiple-

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4.90

自引率

11.80%

发文量

165

期刊介绍： Psychology of Addictive Behaviors publishes peer-reviewed original articles related to the psychological aspects of addictive behaviors. The journal includes articles on the following topics: - alcohol and alcoholism - drug use and abuse - eating disorders - smoking and nicotine addiction, and other excessive behaviors (e.g., gambling) Full-length research reports, literature reviews, brief reports, and comments are published.