Physiological arousal and sensation-seeking in female fruit machine gamblers
Physiological arousal and sensation-seeking in female fruit machine gamblers
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DOI：
10.1046/j.1360-0443.1999.94342512.x
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发表时间：
1999-03-01
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6
通讯作者：
Constable, B
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作者：
Coventry, KR;Constable, B
目标。在控制运动的混杂效应和输赢的情况下，研究在水果机赌博过程中以心率为指标的生理觉醒的变化，并研究在赌博过程中寻求感觉、自我报告的觉醒、赌博过程中的心率和赌博频率之间的关系。样本、设计和测量、心率和主观觉醒，记录了32名女性水果机玩家在赌博过程之前、期间和之后的样本。在基线上，测量了感觉寻求，赌博期间自我报告的觉醒和赌博频率。在基线测量期间，对操作水果机的行为进行了模拟。发现。在赌博过程中，参与者的心率明显高于运动控制的基线，但这只发生在那些在游戏中获胜的人身上。人力资源水平与主观觉醒之间没有相关性。然而，感觉寻求和赌博频率之间，以及主观觉醒和频率之间存在显著的负相关。结论。赌博本身并不足以导致女性水果机赌客HX水平升高；获胜的经验或对这种经验的预期是提高人力资源水平的必要条件。此外，寻求刺激似乎与这种赌博行为呈负相关。
Aims. To examine changes in physiological arousal, as indexed by heart rate, duringfiuit machine gambling while controlling for the confounding effect of movement and as a function of win,ling and losing, and to examine relationships between sensation-seeking, self-reported arousal during gambling, heart rate during gambling and frequency of gambling. Sample, design and measurements, Heart rate and subjective arousal were, recorded in a sample of 32 female fruit machine players before, during and after the gambling process. At baseline measures were taken of sensation-seeking, self-reported arousal during gambling and frequency of gambling. A simulation of the behaviour used to operate fruit machines was used during baseline measurement. Findings. Significant increases ill heart-rate over movement controlled baselines were observed within participants during gambling, bur only in those who won during play. No correlations between HR levels and subjective arousal were found. However, striking negative correlations between sensation-seeking and frequency of gambling, and between subjective arousal and frequency were present. Conclusions. Gambling alone is not enough to induce increases in HX levels for female fruit machine gamblers; the experience of winning or the anticipation of that experience is necessary to increase HR levels. In addition sensation-seeking appears to be negatively associated with this kind of gambling behaviour.