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## Abstract ## Background and aims Money is central to psychological definitions of gambling, but contemporary accounts are ambiguous regarding the role of financial motives in disordered gambling. The aims of the current research were to obtain meta‐analytic weighted effect sizes for zero‐order associations of financial motives against gambling frequency and level of problem gambling, as well as partial associations after controlling for other motives (e.g. coping). ## Methods A meta‐analysis of the literature through February 2021 was undertaken. Studies were identified from multiple sources (e.g. database search, other researchers). PRISMA standards were followed when screening identified records and extracting relevant data. The data analytic plan was pre‐registered. We included 44 cross‐sectional studies that involved student, community and clinical samples of people who gamble (sample sizes ranged from 22–5666), using validated self‐report measures of financial gambling motives alongside measures of either gambling frequency and/or problem gambling. ## Results Financial gambling motives were positively associated with gambling frequency, r = 0.29, 95% CI = [0.21, 0.37], n = 2

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Author

Nassim Tabri; Silas Xuereb; Natalie Cringle; Luke Clark

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)