Role of Motivation in the Progression of Problem Gambling: A Comparison of Early and Late Adults.

Among late adults, social recognition was nearly significant, although negative ( p = 0.0503). 1) Self-determinant (autonomous) motivations such as excitement and socialization do not contribute to the progression of problem gambling. 2) Two non-self-determinant (non-autonomous) motivations, social recognition in early adults and amotivation in late adults, are predictors of problem gambling. 3) Social recognition is a dichotomic and paradoxical motivation in the progress of problem gambling according to age.

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Additionally, amotivation was moderate (Table 3 ).In early adults, two factors of the J-MGMS, intellectual challenge and social recognition, had moderately significant correlations with J-SOGS scores ( r = 0.434–0.559) (Table 4 ).

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