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Gamblers, Addicts Have Similar Personalities
July 6, 2005

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Research Summary

Rebelliousness, anger, and risk-taking are all personality traits shared by compulsive gamblers and people with alcohol or other drug addictions, Fox News reported July 5.

Researchers performed personality assessments on about 1,000 18-year-olds from Dunedin, New Zealand and focused on results from those who had been diagnosed with gambling addiction and three types of substance-abuse disorders. After cross-referencing with 10 basic personality variants, they found that the personality profiles for the gamblers and addicts were very similar.

The authors said that the findings may help explain the relationship between problem gambling and other addictive disorders, as well as providing clues for the development of better treatments for these problems.

The research appears in the July 2005 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.

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