Psychology of Addictive Behaviors最新文献

{"title":"Associations of psychological needs with alcohol use and related outcomes.","authors":"Dylan K Richards, Joshua B Grubbs, Christian C Garcia, Matthew R Pearson, Craig A Field","doi":"10.1037/adb0001115","DOIUrl":"10.1037/adb0001115","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Self-determination theory provides a useful framework for understanding engagement and change in health behaviors and has informed efficacious health intervention, but applications to alcohol use are limited. In the present research, we test hypotheses that greater satisfaction of the psychological needs (autonomy, competence, and relatedness) is associated with protective factors for alcohol use, whereas greater need frustration is associated with risk factors.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>In Studies 1 and 2, convenience samples of college students across the United States completed a cross-sectional survey (Study 1: <i>n</i> = 1,401; <i>M</i>_age = 20.6, <i>SD</i> = 4.0; 73.3% female; 60.3% non-Hispanic White; Study 2: <i>n</i> = 2,276; <i>M</i>_age = 21.1, <i>SD</i> = 5.0; 70.4% female; 52.4% non-Hispanic White). In Study 3, a national sample of U.S. adults completed five surveys over 2 years (<i>n</i> = 1,719; <i>M</i>_age = 49.0, <i>SD</i> = 15.4; 57.4% men; 71.8% non-Hispanic White).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In Studies 1 and 2, we found small associations of greater need satisfaction with more engagement in alcohol harm reduction behaviors, lower alcohol use severity, and fewer alcohol problems; need frustration demonstrated the opposite pattern of associations. In Study 3, we found large positive associations between need frustration and alcohol use severity at each time point, and a large positive association between change in need frustration and change in alcohol use severity.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings suggest preliminary support for associations between psychological needs and alcohol use and related outcomes that may lead to future research on alcohol intervention development and refinement based on self-determination theory. However, further research is needed, especially examination of psychological needs in the context of alcohol use or changes in alcohol use. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":"176-188"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12798685/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145960569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What does the American public want to know about addiction? A national systematic qualitative investigation.","authors":"John F Kelly, Hazel Simpson","doi":"10.1037/adb0001066","DOIUrl":"10.1037/adb0001066","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>In addiction-focused clinical and public health communications intended to educate the public, assumptions are made regarding in which specific knowledge aspects the target population is deficient, so these can be emphasized and harms minimized. It is rare, however, that outreach campaign messaging is based on specific known knowledge deficits. This lack of information can lead to prevention and intervention messaging that not only fails to gain target audiences' attention but can produce unintended consequences. Greater knowledge about information deficits could enhance the impact of addiction-specific health campaigns.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Cross-sectional investigation involving members of the public (<i>N</i> = 1,257) sampled via the Prolific platform. Participants listed their top 10 questions pertaining to one of six different types of addiction problems (addiction-general [<i>n</i> = 211], alcohol [<i>n</i> = 209], cannabis [<i>n</i> = 209], cocaine [<i>n</i> = 211], opioids [<i>n</i> = 214], gambling [<i>n</i> = 209]). Results were categorized using qualitative thematic and grounded theory and ranked according to proportional frequency.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Types of questions asked fell into nine domains (e.g., etiology, clinical characterization and course, drug characteristics, pharmacology) and subdomains, with topics varying substantially within addiction type (e.g., cannabis, opioids) across domains (e.g., etiology, treatment), as well as within domains across types. Differences in the proportion of types of questions asked across and within domains were highly variable differing across addiction types (i.e., cannabis, opioids, gambling).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings have implications for clinical and public health campaigns helping to highlight more precisely the exact nature and extent of potential population-level knowledge deficits across specific addiction types. These might be prioritized and targeted in knowledge dissemination efforts for prevention and treatment engagement. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":"127-138"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12353419/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143804565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Heavy episodic drinking and intimate partner violence perpetration: Do interpersonal stress perceptions matter?","authors":"Julia F Hammett, Mitchell Kirwan, Weiqi Chen","doi":"10.1037/adb0001108","DOIUrl":"10.1037/adb0001108","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major public health concern. Heavy episodic drinking (HED; i.e., drinking 5+ drinks for men or 4+ drinks for women in a 2-hr period) is a contributing cause of IPV, yet HED does not elicit IPV for all individuals, under all circumstances. Theory and research have identified important <i>intra</i>personal moderators of alcohol-related IPV. However, these approaches fall short in conceptualizing alcohol-related IPV from an <i>inter</i>personal perspective. Guided by the I³ model, the present study used a dyadic approach to examine associations between partners' HED, interpersonal stress perceptions (defined as partners' perceptions of each other's appraisal of stressful life situations), and psychological and physical/sexual IPV perpetration.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Sixty-seven mixed-gender couples (<i>N</i> = 134 individuals) in committed relationships provided data via an online self-report questionnaire.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Actor-partner interdependence models showed that when HED was low, couples' likelihood of perpetrating IPV was independent of the accuracy of partners' perceptions of each other's stress. However, increases in HED were associated with increased risk for IPV perpetration among couples who had accurate perceptions of each other's stress, whereas among couples in which one partner under- or overestimated how stressed the other felt, the risk for IPV perpetration did not increase as HED increased.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>If replicated, these findings provide support that under- and overestimating partners' stress may dampen the disinhibiting effects of HED on IPV perpetration that exist among couples who perceive their partners' stress accurately. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":"218-229"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145490200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Associations between suicide ideation, craving, and alcohol use across 12 weeks of outpatient treatment for alcohol use disorder.","authors":"Margaret M Baer, Everette Keller, Elizabeth J Santa Ana, Tracy Stecker, Julianne C Flanagan, Kevin M Gray, Sudie E Back","doi":"10.1037/adb0001095","DOIUrl":"10.1037/adb0001095","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Suicide and alcohol use disorder (AUD) are entwined public health crises; yet, no research on associations between suicide ideation and AUD treatment outcomes exists within dual-diagnosis AUD and posttraumatic stress disorder samples, a group with elevated rates of suicidal thoughts and behaviors compared to either diagnosis alone. This study examined associations between suicide ideation and alcohol-related outcomes during receipt of cognitive behavioral therapy for AUD.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Data were drawn from a 12-week randomized controlled trial examining the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy for AUD combined with N-acetylcysteine or placebo among 182 adults with AUD and posttraumatic stress disorder. Multivariable mixed logistic regression models were used to identify associations between suicide ideation and AUD-related variables (i.e., craving severity, total standard drinks, average drinks on drinking days, percent of total days drinking, percent of heavy drinking days) assessed weekly during treatment.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>During treatment, the odds of suicide ideation increased 1.16 times for each one-unit increase in craving severity, 3.13 times for each one-unit increase in percent of heavy drinking days, and 5.04 times for each one-unit increase in percent of total days drinking. No significant associations were observed between the odds of suicidal ideation and the number of total standard drinks or average drinks on days drinking.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Suicide ideation is more likely to occur during weeks of heightened craving and during weeks of a greater percentage of time spent drinking alcohol, suggesting a need for continued suicide assessment throughout the course of outpatient AUD treatment, particularly for individuals with AUD and posttraumatic stress disorder. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":"166-175"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12765525/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145490746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mechanisms of change in alcohol use in online relationship programs for distressed couples.","authors":"Judith N Biesen, Maya Metser-Waldman, Brian D Doss","doi":"10.1037/adb0001128","DOIUrl":"10.1037/adb0001128","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Although interventions exist for couples with alcohol use problems, web-based adaptations are in their early stages. Online programs for general relationship distress sharing elements with couple therapies for alcohol use may be an effective adjunctive intervention even without directly targeting alcohol use. This study evaluated whether two online interventions for general relationship distress decreased alcohol use and whether improvements in individual and relationship-level mechanisms contributed to reductions in alcohol use during and after the intervention.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Couples (N = 248) with at least one partner with problematic alcohol use were randomly assigned to the OurRelationship, e-Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program program, or a waitlist control group. Over 6 months, couples repeatedly completed self-report measures on their alcohol use and five mechanisms: negative communication, perceived criticism, anger, anxious, and depressed mood.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Couples in both programs (vs. waitlist couples) had greater improvements in alcohol use and all mechanisms except for anger. Improvements in mechanisms were associated with improvements in alcohol use during the intervention, but not the maintenance of reduced alcohol use during follow-up.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Results suggest that couples experienced benefits despite the absence of content tailored specifically to alcohol use. Since improvements through the mechanisms occurred only during the intervention, evaluating the impact of online relationship program on other areas of functioning, such as community connectedness may prove useful in understanding sustained reductions in alcohol use. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":"40 2","pages":"230-242"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147366996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Coping strategy as a predictor of illicit drug use among persons who inject drugs.","authors":"David W Sosnowski, Kenneth A Feder, Jacquie Astemborski, Becky L Genberg, Sara B Johnson, Jing Sun, Brion S Maher, Rashelle J Musci, Shruti H Mehta, Gregory D Kirk","doi":"10.1037/adb0001114","DOIUrl":"10.1037/adb0001114","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Persons engaging in illicit drug use, particularly injection drug use, are often overlooked in resilience literature. Understanding factors that foster resilience within this population can support cessation from, and prevent relapse to, illicit drug use. We examined whether coping strategies are associated with short-term cessation and relapse among persons who have injected drugs.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Data come from a community-recruited cohort of people who have a history of injection drug use from Baltimore, Maryland. We examined two subsamples of visit pairs conducted from 1988 to 2020: (1) where at the first visit, participants reported past-6-month illicit drug use (684 participants, 8,783 visits), and (2) at the first visit, participants reported no past-6-month illicit drug use (516 participants, 7,872 visits). Logistic regression with generalized estimating equations was used to estimate the associations of 14 self-reported lifetime coping strategies with (1) short-term cessation and (2) relapse to illicit drug use.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among persons reporting recent illicit drug use, self-reported use of substances to cope, denial, and behavioral disengagement were associated with decreased odds of short-term cessation, whereas use of prayer or meditation and emotional support were associated with increased odds of short-term cessation. Among persons reporting no recent illicit drug use, lifetime use of substances to cope, denial, and self-blame were associated with increased odds of relapse, whereas lifetime use of active coping was associated with decreased odds of relapse.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings demonstrate coping strategies that may be similarly and uniquely associated with short-term cessation from, versus relapse to, illicit drug use. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":"199-208"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12626395/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145543270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Seeking relief or fueling the fire? Understanding the complex role of cannabis in PTSD, stress, and sleep dysregulation.","authors":"Jordan P Davis, Shaddy K Saba, Daniel Leightley, Eric R Pedersen, John Prindle, Bistra Dilkina, Jonathan Cantor, Emily Dworkin, Angeles Sedano","doi":"10.1037/adb0001097","DOIUrl":"10.1037/adb0001097","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Cannabis use is common among U.S. military veterans, particularly those experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), poor sleep, and elevated stress. While often used to self-manage these symptoms, the impact of cannabis on day-to-day symptomology remains unclear. This study examined the daily associations among cannabis use, PTSD symptoms, perceived stress, and sleep quality using intensive longitudinal data.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Seventy-four recently separated U.S. veterans (age = 33.5 years; 80% male; 61% non-Hispanic White) who endorsed past-month cannabis use and elevated PTSD symptoms completed a 3-month daily diary study. Participants provided 4,307 person-days of data via a mobile app. Measures included daily cannabis use (hours high), PTSD symptoms, perceived stress, and sleep quality. Dynamic structural equation modeling (DSEM) was used to estimate within-person lagged and same-day associations, adjusting for relevant covariates.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Day-to-day analyses revealed that elevated PTSD symptoms and poor sleep quality each predicted greater perceived stress the following day. Greater number of hours high was associated with less perceived stress the following day. Perceived stress, in turn, predicted both higher PTSD symptoms and poorer sleep quality. In post hoc analysis, stress emerged as a significant mechanism of change in the day-to-day lagged model. In particular, we show greater cannabis use is linked to improved sleep and PTSD symptoms through lower perceived stress.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Cannabis may offer temporary relief and appears to interrupt the day-to-day cycle linking PTSD, stress, and poor sleep. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":"209-217"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145082097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effect of PTSD on World Health Organization risk drinking levels and reductions in a nationally representative sample.","authors":"Robyn A Ellis, Victoria R Votaw, Katie Witkiewitz, Shelly F Greenfield, R Kathryn McHugh","doi":"10.1037/adb0001104","DOIUrl":"10.1037/adb0001104","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Reductions in alcohol use are associated with improved mental and physical health. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may hamper drinking reductions via drinking to cope with symptoms. Using nationally representative data in those with trauma exposure, we aimed to determine whether PTSD symptoms were associated with (a) the World Health Organization risk drinking levels (WHO RDL) and (b) WHO RDL change over 3 years.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We used baseline (2001-2002) and 3-year follow-up (2004-2005) National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions data, including PTSD diagnosis, WHO RDL (abstinence, low, moderate, high, and very high risk based on mean drinks per day), and WHO RDL change (increased, one-, two-, three-level reduction, or reduced to abstinence). Multinomial logistic regression models tested study aims.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>PTSD was associated with high-risk (<i>OR</i> = 1.39, <i>p</i> = .040) and very-high-risk drinking (<i>OR</i> = 2.09, <i>p</i> < .001) compared with low-risk drinking (<i>n</i> = 31,638). Baseline PTSD symptoms (retrospectively reported at the follow-up assessment) were associated with greater odds of increasing WHO RDLs over 3 years among those with initial low-risk drinking (<i>OR</i> = 1.36, <i>p</i> = .015; <i>n</i> = 17,948) and lower odds of reducing WHO RDLs among those with initial high-risk (<i>OR</i> = 0.40, <i>p</i> = .026; <i>n</i> = 648) or very-high-risk (<i>OR</i> = 0.21, <i>p</i> < .002; <i>n</i> = 678) drinking levels.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>PTSD is associated with high-risk drinking, as well as increased and persistent problematic alcohol use over time. As such, PTSD should be considered and addressed in efforts to prevent or reduce risky alcohol use among those with high-risk drinking. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145514539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Physical card pack and especially video game loot box spending are both positively correlated with problem gambling but not linked to negative mental health: An international survey.","authors":"Leon Y Xiao, David Zendle, Elena Petrovskaya, Rune K L Nielsen, Philip Newall","doi":"10.1037/adb0001082","DOIUrl":"10.1037/adb0001082","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Card packs are physical products providing random content that companies rely on to monetize trading or collectible card games. Loot boxes are equivalent digital products inside video games that can similarly be bought to obtain randomized rewards. Both products are psychologically similar to gambling because the player can \"win\" by obtaining rare and valuable rewards or alternatively \"lose\" by obtaining nonvaluable rewards. Loot box spending has been repeatedly and reliably linked to problem gambling. However, the link between card pack spending and gambling has been little studied.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We recruited card game players living in English-speaking Western countries (<i>N</i> = 1,961) to assess the links between card pack and loot box spending on one hand and problem gambling and mental health outcomes on the other.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Spending money on physical card packs (<i>r</i> = 0.15), loot boxes (<i>r</i> = 0.31), and virtual card packs (a specific type of loot boxes found in a specific genre of card-based video games; <i>r</i> = 0.22) were all linked to problem gambling but at markedly different strengths. Spending money on all these gambling-like products were not associated with negative mental health. Spending money on certain subcategories of loot boxes differs from overall spending.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The current legal definitions of \"gambling\" in many countries should be modernized using scientific evidence: Presently, the law (if properly enforced) would regulate products that are less strongly correlated with problem gambling and therefore arguably less potentially harmful (e.g., physical card packs), but fails to regulate arguably more harmful products that are more strongly correlated with problem gambling (e.g., loot boxes). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":"66-85"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Betting on influence: The impact of gambling advertising on the attitudes and behaviors of problem gamblers in France.","authors":"Samantha Tessier, Lucia Romo, Corentin Gonthier, Oulmann Zerhouni","doi":"10.1037/adb0001102","DOIUrl":"10.1037/adb0001102","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The proliferation of gambling advertising has raised concerns about its effects on gambling behavior, particularly among vulnerable populations such as highest risk gamblers. This study examines the influence of gambling advertising on attitudes and intentions to gamble on a large sample of gamblers in France.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We used an online questionnaire in a cross-sectional design, with data collected between February 15 and April 30, 2021. Participants were recruited through a single recruitment channel, namely the client mailing list of the Française des Jeux, resulting in a final sample consisting of 1,334 participants (62% male, 38% female, < 1% other) with a mean age of 41.37 years (<i>SD</i> = 15.07). Participants completed validated questionnaires, including the Canadian Problem Gambling Index, advertisement recall, measures of impulsivity, and cognitive distortions. Exposure to responsible-gambling messages was recorded descriptively and not manipulated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results indicate that exposure to gambling advertising was significantly associated with more positive participants' attitudes toward gambling and their intentions to engage in gambling activities. Highest risk gamblers were more susceptible to the influence of advertising, showing higher recall of advertisements and greater likelihood of gambling after exposure.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The study highlights the urgent need for regulatory action to limit exposure of vulnerable populations to gambling advertising and formulate strategies to mitigate gambling-related harm. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":"99-112"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145309543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}