This work integrates and articulates the main results of the project “Pathological gambling
in 3D: Family, marital and individual variables”, presented in five scientific articles. The
results show that pathological gamblers are a heterogeneous group with different severities
of the gambling problem, revealing a positive relationship between increasing severity
of pathological gambling and the amount and intensity of individual, marital and family
difficulties associated. The order in which these difficulties appear seems to put family
difficulties and differentiation of the self in the last place and marital and individual
difficulties in the first one. There is little consensus regarding the marriage and family
areas between gambler(s) and their spouse(s), whereby the perspective of the former is less marked by deficit or more optimistic than the latter’s. The articulation of these data has led to a comprehensive reflection on the theme, systematized by the reformulation of the Integrative Systemic Model of Pathological Gambling.
Authors
Cunha, Diana
Fonseca, Gabriela
Relvas, Ana Paula
Keywords
jogo patológico,
família,
casal,
indivíduo,
pathological gambling,
family,
couple,
individual
