Abstract
Background A scale aimed at measuring ambivalence among people with pachinko/pachi-slot playing disorder, the Pachinko/Pachi-Slot Playing Ambivalence Scale (PPAS), was developed and its reliability and validity ascertained.MethodsA total of 522 participants (average year: 48.0) who were residing in Tokyo Metropolitan Area, and had played pachinko within the previous year completed questions relating to demographics, four gambling-related scales (including South Oaks Gambling Screen) and two general ambivalence scales (including Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness Questionnaire).ResultsInternal consistency (α = 0.87) and test–retest reliability (r = 0.66) were confirmed. The PPAS’s score was associated with each related scale’s score (r = 0.37–0.62).ConclusionsThe PPAS was shown to be consistent with previous scales and useful in clinical settings.
Highlights
A scale aimed at measuring ambivalence among people with pachinko/pachi-slot playing disorder, the Pachinko/Pachi-Slot Playing Ambivalence Scale (PPAS), was developed and its reliability and validity ascertained
Gambling disorder promotes depression and suicide (Petry and Kiluk 2002), but it has been linked to social problems such as child abuse and severe indebtedness (Grant et al 2010)
Existing gambling disorder assessment scales can broadly be divided into: (a) scales for evaluating treatment effectiveness by measuring principal symptoms such as a craving and (b) diagnostic scales providing a comprehensive assessment of problems; for example, in cognition, behavior, and interpersonal relationships
Summary
A scale aimed at measuring ambivalence among people with pachinko/pachi-slot playing disorder, the Pachinko/Pachi-Slot Playing Ambivalence Scale (PPAS), was developed and its reliability and validity ascertained. Existing gambling disorder assessment scales can broadly be divided into: (a) scales for evaluating treatment effectiveness by measuring principal symptoms such as a craving and (b) diagnostic scales providing a comprehensive assessment of problems; for example, in cognition, behavior, and interpersonal relationships. The former type includes the Gambling Symptom Assessment Scale (G-SAS) (Kim et al 2009) and the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale-modified for Pathological Gambling (PG-YBOCS) (Pallanti et al 2005). The latter type includes assessment instruments such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 (DSM-5) (American Psychiatric Association 2013), the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) (Lesieur and Blume 1987), the Alberta
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