Research Article

The Relationship between Endorsing Gambling as an Escape and the Display of Gambling Problems

Table 1

Means scores on the GFA-R and its two subscales, the SOGS, and the PGSI for females, males, and all participants in either the entire sample and only for those participants who scored above 0 on the GFA-R (with standard deviations in parentheses).

Total sample
Group ( )GFA-RGFA-R pos.GFA-R escSOGSPGSI

Females (180)18.7 (16.4)16.1 (13.1)2.6 (5.9)1.1 (1.8)1.0 (2.6)
Males (69)24.9 (12.5)22.1 (10.1)2.8 (4.0)1.5 (1.6)1.4 (2.4)

Total (249)20.5 (15.6)17.8 (12.6)2.7 (5.4)1.2 (1.8)1.1 (2.5)

Respondents scoring > 0 on the GFA-R only

Females (138)24.4 (14.5)21.0 (11.0)3.4 (6.5)1.4 (2.0)1.3 (2.8)
Males (64)26.8 (10.7)23.9 (8.2)3.0 (4.1)1.6 (1.6)1.5 (2.5)

Total (202)25.2 (13.4)21.9 (10.3)3.3 (5.9)1.4 (1.9)1.4 (2.7)