The Experience of Gambling and its Role in Problem Gambling

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Is boredom associated with problem gambling behaviour? It depends on what you mean by ‘boredom’ (2010, background): “Similarly, Turner et al. (2006) found that susceptibility to boredom was significantly predictive of problem gambling.”
A Review of Personality Research in the Tourism and Hospitality Context (2010, background): “Research findings indicate that problem gamblers generally have early winning experience, stressful lives, depression, anxiety, and poor coping skills ( Turner, Zangeneh, & Littman-Sharp, 2006 ).”
Internet Gambling Behavior in a Sample of Online Gamblers (2008, background): “…that playing games with rapid event frequencies has caused problems for Internet gamblers, but results add evidence to the theory that the Internet may be a particularly attractive medium for individuals with gambling problems (Griffiths 1996, 2003; Turner et al. 2006; Wood and Williams 2007b).”
Pathways to Pathological Gambling: Component Analysis of Variables Related to Pathological Gambling (2008, unknown): “Based on past recruitment efforts, this strategy has been shown to be an efficient and inexpensive means of recruiting both non-problem social gamblers and pathological gamblers (e.g. Turner et al., 2006).”