DEPRESSION AND ADDICTION IN GAMBLING A.Duda

Abstract

The main objective of this work is the
theoretical knowledge and practical exploitation of
pathological consequences on life game player chance,
depression and addiction are two of the most important
factors that are reflected in the gambler personality.
This study can be a help for those who want to learn
more about this topic so widespread and, at the same
time controversial. Pathological form of the gambling is
not an isolated phenomenon, but a highly complex issue
that profoundly affects in the same way the pathological
chance players and their families and society as a
whole.
The overall target of this work is a gambling foray into
pathological. Based on two personality disorders,
addiction and depression, I have demonstrated the close
connection between them and gambling through
research conducted during years 2014-2016 on a
sample of 40 respondents. I chose this topic from the
idea that depression influences the emergence and
development of the pathological gambling, but I
concluded that this relationship is bivalent because both
depression and addiction influencing the onset
pathological gambling and pathological gambling
induces addiction and depression. I have selected
respondents from different backgrounds because those
players are part of all walks of life, not just individuals
with a very good financial situation, but any individuals
who come from the lower class of society. The link
between all social backgrounds from which they
belongs to ans gambling is possible because human
rationality can be lost during the game regardless of the
status and intellectual level of the gambler.