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A Serious Videogame as an Additional Therapy Tool for Training Emotional Regulation and Impulsivity Control in Severe Gambling Disorder

Background: Gambling disorder (GD) is characterized by a significant lack of self-control and is associated with impulsivity-related personality traits. It is also linked to deficits in emotional regulation and frequently co-occurs with anxiety and depression symptoms. There is also evidence that em...

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Autores principales: Tárrega, Salomé, Castro-Carreras, Laia, Fernández-Aranda, Fernando, Granero, Roser, Giner-Bartolomé, Cristina, Aymamí, Neus, Gómez-Peña, Mónica, Santamaría, Juan J., Forcano, Laura, Steward, Trevor, Menchón, José M., Jiménez-Murcia, Susana
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4641919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26617550
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01721
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author Tárrega, Salomé
Castro-Carreras, Laia
Fernández-Aranda, Fernando
Granero, Roser
Giner-Bartolomé, Cristina
Aymamí, Neus
Gómez-Peña, Mónica
Santamaría, Juan J.
Forcano, Laura
Steward, Trevor
Menchón, José M.
Jiménez-Murcia, Susana
author_facet Tárrega, Salomé
Castro-Carreras, Laia
Fernández-Aranda, Fernando
Granero, Roser
Giner-Bartolomé, Cristina
Aymamí, Neus
Gómez-Peña, Mónica
Santamaría, Juan J.
Forcano, Laura
Steward, Trevor
Menchón, José M.
Jiménez-Murcia, Susana
author_sort Tárrega, Salomé
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description Background: Gambling disorder (GD) is characterized by a significant lack of self-control and is associated with impulsivity-related personality traits. It is also linked to deficits in emotional regulation and frequently co-occurs with anxiety and depression symptoms. There is also evidence that emotional dysregulation may play a mediatory role between GD and psychopathological symptomatology. Few studies have reported the outcomes of psychological interventions that specifically address these underlying processes. Objectives: To assess the utility of the Playmancer platform, a serious video game, as an additional therapy tool in a CBT intervention for GD, and to estimate pre-post changes in measures of impulsivity, anger expression and psychopathological symptomatology. Method: The sample comprised a single group of 16 male treatment-seeking individuals with severe GD diagnosis. Therapy intervention consisted of 16 group weekly CBT sessions and, concurrently, 10 additional weekly sessions of a serious video game. Pre-post treatment scores on South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS), Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11), I7 Impulsiveness Questionnaire (I7), State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory 2 (STAXI-2), Symptom Checklist-Revised (SCL-90-R), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-S-T), and Novelty Seeking from the Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised (TCI-R) were compared. Results: After the intervention, significant changes were observed in several measures of impulsivity, anger expression and other psychopathological symptoms. Dropout and relapse rates during treatment were similar to those described in the literature for CBT. Conclusion: Complementing CBT interventions for GD with a specific therapy approach like a serious video game might be helpful in addressing certain underlying factors which are usually difficult to change, including impulsivity and anger expression.
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spelling pubmed-46419192015-11-27 A Serious Videogame as an Additional Therapy Tool for Training Emotional Regulation and Impulsivity Control in Severe Gambling Disorder Tárrega, Salomé Castro-Carreras, Laia Fernández-Aranda, Fernando Granero, Roser Giner-Bartolomé, Cristina Aymamí, Neus Gómez-Peña, Mónica Santamaría, Juan J. Forcano, Laura Steward, Trevor Menchón, José M. Jiménez-Murcia, Susana Front Psychol Psychology Background: Gambling disorder (GD) is characterized by a significant lack of self-control and is associated with impulsivity-related personality traits. It is also linked to deficits in emotional regulation and frequently co-occurs with anxiety and depression symptoms. There is also evidence that emotional dysregulation may play a mediatory role between GD and psychopathological symptomatology. Few studies have reported the outcomes of psychological interventions that specifically address these underlying processes. Objectives: To assess the utility of the Playmancer platform, a serious video game, as an additional therapy tool in a CBT intervention for GD, and to estimate pre-post changes in measures of impulsivity, anger expression and psychopathological symptomatology. Method: The sample comprised a single group of 16 male treatment-seeking individuals with severe GD diagnosis. Therapy intervention consisted of 16 group weekly CBT sessions and, concurrently, 10 additional weekly sessions of a serious video game. Pre-post treatment scores on South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS), Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11), I7 Impulsiveness Questionnaire (I7), State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory 2 (STAXI-2), Symptom Checklist-Revised (SCL-90-R), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-S-T), and Novelty Seeking from the Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised (TCI-R) were compared. Results: After the intervention, significant changes were observed in several measures of impulsivity, anger expression and other psychopathological symptoms. Dropout and relapse rates during treatment were similar to those described in the literature for CBT. Conclusion: Complementing CBT interventions for GD with a specific therapy approach like a serious video game might be helpful in addressing certain underlying factors which are usually difficult to change, including impulsivity and anger expression. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4641919/ /pubmed/26617550 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01721 Text en Copyright © 2015 Tárrega, Castro-Carreras, Fernández-Aranda, Granero, Giner-Bartolomé, Aymamí, Gómez-Peña, Santamaría, Forcano, Steward, Menchón and Jiménez-Murcia. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychology
Tárrega, Salomé
Castro-Carreras, Laia
Fernández-Aranda, Fernando
Granero, Roser
Giner-Bartolomé, Cristina
Aymamí, Neus
Gómez-Peña, Mónica
Santamaría, Juan J.
Forcano, Laura
Steward, Trevor
Menchón, José M.
Jiménez-Murcia, Susana
A Serious Videogame as an Additional Therapy Tool for Training Emotional Regulation and Impulsivity Control in Severe Gambling Disorder
title A Serious Videogame as an Additional Therapy Tool for Training Emotional Regulation and Impulsivity Control in Severe Gambling Disorder
title_full A Serious Videogame as an Additional Therapy Tool for Training Emotional Regulation and Impulsivity Control in Severe Gambling Disorder
title_fullStr A Serious Videogame as an Additional Therapy Tool for Training Emotional Regulation and Impulsivity Control in Severe Gambling Disorder
title_full_unstemmed A Serious Videogame as an Additional Therapy Tool for Training Emotional Regulation and Impulsivity Control in Severe Gambling Disorder
title_short A Serious Videogame as an Additional Therapy Tool for Training Emotional Regulation and Impulsivity Control in Severe Gambling Disorder
title_sort serious videogame as an additional therapy tool for training emotional regulation and impulsivity control in severe gambling disorder
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4641919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26617550
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01721
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