i found a research which identified four psychological traits contributing to risk for problem gambling. these are the four Es:
escape, esteem, excess and excitement.
this is my understanding of the four Es. do you agree or no?
Making sense, the four Es are confidential factors that determines the reasons why an individual tends to gamble and the meaning from what you have identified so far varies between person's. For escape; most people go into gambling cause they try to escape poverty and the feel gambling is the way out following some testimonies of how people cash out and cause the have brought their esteem so high to win they get excessive loses that slowly leads to addiction.