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Disordered gambling, or dependence and consequences: a bifactor exploratory structural equation model analysis of the problem gambling severity index (2024)
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Background The Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) is a widely used assessment of disordered gambling. However, it has been claimed that instead of measuring a single factor of problem gambling severity, the PGSI measures two correlated factors o... Read More about Disordered gambling, or dependence and consequences: a bifactor exploratory structural equation model analysis of the problem gambling severity index.

What’s love got to do with it? Exploring social love and public health (2024)
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To screen, or not to screen: An experimental comparison of two methods for correlating video game loot box expenditure and problem gambling severity (2023)
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Loot boxes are gambling-like products found in video games that players can buy with real-world money to obtain random rewards. A positive correlation between loot box spending and problem gambling severity has been well-replicated. Some researchers... Read More about To screen, or not to screen: An experimental comparison of two methods for correlating video game loot box expenditure and problem gambling severity.

‘No evidence of harm’ implies no evidence of safety: Framing the lack of causal evidence in gambling advertising research (2023)
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Tracking online searches for gambling activities and operators in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Google Trends™ analysis (2023)
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Background: Whilst some research has explored the impact of COVID-19 on gambling behaviour, little is yet known about online search behaviours for gambling during this period. The current study explored gambling-related online searches before, during... Read More about Tracking online searches for gambling activities and operators in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Google Trends™ analysis.

The relationship between smartphone use and smartphone addiction: An examination of logged and self-reported behavior in a pre-registered, two-wave sample (2023)
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There has been a growing literature that has utilized logged behavior from smartphones to study the impacts of technology use on individuals. One of these proposed impacts has been that people become addicted to their smartphones. Measurements of sma... Read More about The relationship between smartphone use and smartphone addiction: An examination of logged and self-reported behavior in a pre-registered, two-wave sample.

How does the phrasing of house edge information affect gamblers’ perceptions and level of understanding? A Registered Report (2023)
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The provision of information to consumers is a common input to tackling various public health issues. By comparison to the information given on food and alcohol products, information on gambling products is either not given at all, or shown in low-pr... Read More about How does the phrasing of house edge information affect gamblers’ perceptions and level of understanding? A Registered Report.

Depression, Cognition, and Pain: Exploring Individual, Cultural and Country-Level Effects Across Europe (2023)
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The aim of this paper was to investigate the role of economic (eg, GDP per capita), political (eg, healthcare spending), cultural (country-level aggregates norms) and individual correlates (eg, depression) of pain in a secondary analysis of a sample... Read More about Depression, Cognition, and Pain: Exploring Individual, Cultural and Country-Level Effects Across Europe.

Individual differences in decision-making: evidence for the scarcity hypothesis from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2022)
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We report the results of a pre-registered analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing that was designed to test the hypothesis that economic scarcity is associated with individual differences in decision-making. We tested this hypo... Read More about Individual differences in decision-making: evidence for the scarcity hypothesis from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

Understanding the construction of ‘behavior’ in smartphone addiction: A scoping review (2022)
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It has been claimed that smartphone usage constitutes a behavioral addiction, characterised by compulsive, excessive use of one's phone and psychological withdrawal or distress when the phone is absent. However, there is uncertainty about key phenome... Read More about Understanding the construction of ‘behavior’ in smartphone addiction: A scoping review.

Quantile regression analysis of in-play betting in a large online gambling dataset (2022)
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In-play betting involves making multiple bets during a sporting event and is an increasingly popular form of gambling. Behavioural analysis of large datasets of in-play betting may aid in the prediction of at-risk patterns of gambling. However, datas... Read More about Quantile regression analysis of in-play betting in a large online gambling dataset.

The Use of Social Media in Research on Gambling: a Systematic Review (2021)
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Purpose of Review Social media enables a range of possibilities in the way gamblers and gambling operators interact and content communicate with gambling. The purpose of this systematic review was to synthesise the extant literature to identify the... Read More about The Use of Social Media in Research on Gambling: a Systematic Review.

Using heterogeneity in disease to understand the relationship between health and personality (2021)
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The aim of this study was to compare the relationship between two health outcomes (pain and self-reported health) and personality while accounting for heterogeneity in arthritic disease. Traditionally health psychology and other health research has t... Read More about Using heterogeneity in disease to understand the relationship between health and personality.

The Central Aspects of Pain in the Knee (CAP-Knee) questionnaire; a mixed-methods study of a self-report instrument for assessing central mechanisms in people with knee pain (2021)
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OBJECTIVES: Pain is the prevailing symptom of knee osteoarthritis. Central sensitisation creates discordance between pain and joint pathology. We previously reported a central pain mechanisms trait derived from 8 discrete characteristics: neuropathic... Read More about The Central Aspects of Pain in the Knee (CAP-Knee) questionnaire; a mixed-methods study of a self-report instrument for assessing central mechanisms in people with knee pain.

Defining the key issues discussed by problematic gamblers on web-based forums: a data-driven approach (2020)
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Online forums can be a source of support for people with gambling-related problems. Forum threads contain detailed information about these gamblers’ experiences. However, because of limitations in data collection and analysis, there have been few sys... Read More about Defining the key issues discussed by problematic gamblers on web-based forums: a data-driven approach.

Towards a cross-cultural assessment of binge-watching: Psychometric evaluation of the “watching TV series motives” and “binge-watching engagement and symptoms” questionnaires across nine languages (2020)
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In view of the growing interest regarding binge-watching (i.e., watching multiple episodes of television (TV) series in a single sitting) research, two measures were developed and validated to assess binge-watching involvement (“Binge-Watching Engage... Read More about Towards a cross-cultural assessment of binge-watching: Psychometric evaluation of the “watching TV series motives” and “binge-watching engagement and symptoms” questionnaires across nine languages.

Increasing uptake of National Health Service Health Checks in primary care: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial of enhanced invitation letters in Northamptonshire, England (2019)
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Disease Activity Flares and Pain Flares in an early rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort; characteristics, antecedents and sequelae (2019)
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Background RA flares are common and disabling. They are described in terms of worsening inflammation but pain and inflammation are often discordant. To inform treatment decisions, we investigated whether inflammatory and pain flares are discrete ent... Read More about Disease Activity Flares and Pain Flares in an early rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort; characteristics, antecedents and sequelae.

The dynamic relationship between pain, depression and cognitive function in a sample of newly diagnosed arthritic adults: a cross-lagged panel model (2019)
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Background: Pain and depression are common in the population and co-morbid with each other. Both are also predictive of one another other, and are also associated with cognitive function; people who are in greater pain and more depressed respectively... Read More about The dynamic relationship between pain, depression and cognitive function in a sample of newly diagnosed arthritic adults: a cross-lagged panel model.

Web Scraping Using R (2019)
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The ubiquitous use of the Internet in daily life means that there are now large reservoirs of data that can provide fresh insights into human behavior. One of the key barriers preventing more researchers from utilizing online data is that they do not... Read More about Web Scraping Using R.