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.
escape: when people try to find an escape from stress and all their other problems through gambling, more problem arises and addiction happens
esteem: when people try to find their value through materialistic things and wins in gambling, addiction happens
excess: when people gamble excessively, that is when addiction happens
and excitement: people get excitement from gambling and they no longer know how to stop and that's when addiction happens
this is my understanding of the four Es. do you agree or no?
It's funny how people pick gambling as a source of their escape, it would had more to the stress in no time because money is involved, if you risk too much you can die from high blood pressure lol, this is a wrong pick as a means of escaping stress.
I am a bit confused about the esteem part, what does materialistic things have to do with gambling? It's not as if you will win more when gambling anyway, most of the time you lose and when you win you can use your money to do whatever you want even if you have to use it all to drink alcohol.
Wasting too much time on gambling will drawn you into the danger deeps, the more time you spent the more likely you become a addicted gambler, smaller time are the best.
The excitement part don't just happen like that, if gamblers keep losing there will be no excitement on their faces but only anger, and if somehow they start winning over and over they will find it harder to stop, until the lose everything and back to where they began.