Jihyeong Yeong and Paul Sacco publish psychometric study in Addictive Behavior Reports.
Social Work PhD student Jihyeong Jeong and Associate Professor Paul Sacco have published a psychometric study entitled "Dimensionality and validity of the gambling motives questionnaire—Financial among lottery loyalty program participants" in the journal Addictive Behavior Reports.
In the study, they sought to understand whether a survey instrument focused on gambling motivations (e.g., gambling to cope) assessed distinct types of motivations or simply an overall drive to gamble (i.e., general motives) using a unique statistical model, bifactor confirmatory factor analysis. They found that most of the information derived from the instrument measured general motivation, but that the instrument also measured financial motives (gambling to make money) as a distinct construct.
They also tested whether these motivations were associated with problem gambling and found that greater general gambling motives and coping motives were associated with higher gambling problems but that gambling for socialization (i.e., social motives) was associated with lower levels of gambling problems.
The findings of this study can serve as a guide for the use of this instrument for quantitative research on problem gambling.
This research was funded by Seed Grant from the International Center on Responsible Gaming and published open access with the support the HSHSL open access fund.
The study can be accessed here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352853224000476?via%3Dihub