Childhood maltreatment and disordered gambling in adulthood: disentangling causal and familial influences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite abundant research on the potential causal influence of childhood maltreatment (CM) on psychological maladaptation in adulthood, almost none has implemented the discordant twin design as a means of examining the role of such experiences in later disordered gambling (DG) while accounting for genetic and family environmental confounds. The present study implemented such an approach to disentangle the potential causal and familial factors that may account for the association between CM and DG.

Methods

Participants were 3750 twins from the Australian Twin Registry [Mage = 37.60 (s.d. = 2.31); 58% female]. CM and DG were assessed separately via two semi-structured telephone interviews. Random-intercept generalized linear mixed models were fit to the data; zygosi

SUBMITTER: Dash GF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7855020 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature