The Gambling Behavior of American Indian and Non-Indian Participants: Effects of the Actions and Ethnicity of a Confederate

Autor/inn/en	McDougall, Casey L.; McDonald, J. Douglas; Weatherly, Jeffrey N.
Titel	The Gambling Behavior of American Indian and Non-Indian Participants: Effects of the Actions and Ethnicity of a Confederate
Quelle	In: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 14 (2008) 3, S.59-74 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1533-7731
Schlagwörter	Ethnicity; American Indians; Behavior Patterns; Comparative Analysis; Counseling Techniques; Behavior Problems + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnizität; American Indian; Indianer; Counseling technique; Counselling technique; Counselling techniques; Beratungsmethode
Abstract	The present experiment investigated whether the gambling of American Indian (AI) and non-AI participants would be sensitive to the actions and/or ethnicity of another gambler (i.e., a confederate) when playing a slot-machine simulation. Eight male AIs and eight male non-AIs participated in five gambling sessions. In one, the participant gambled alone. In the other four, the participant played in the presence of a confederate of the same or different ethnicity who gambled the entire session or quit after playing five times. The gambling of the AI and non-AI participants did not differ, nor was either group sensitive to whether the confederate was AI or non-AI. Gambling behavior was altered by the confederate's actions, with participants gambling less when the confederate left the session than when alone or when the confederate stayed and gambled. These results suggest that the differences in gambling problems between AIs and non-AIs reported in the overall literature may not be a function of ethnicity per se. They also suggest that the actions of other gamblers may inhibit gambling, which may have treatment implications. (Contains 1 footnote and 1 figure.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10