Gambling motives and cognitive distortions are thought to be associated because both coping and financial motives to gamble appear to be predictors of gambling related cognitive distortions. Therefore, there is an argument to be made that gambling motives, cognitive distortions, and materialism share common attributes and might be related to problem gambling severity. The present paper aims to examine the relationship between these three variables, both in a clinical and community setting, to see if they can predict gambling severity. A sample of 250 participants from the general population and 31 participants from the clinical population was recruited. The results showed that the clinical sample scored higher on gambling severity, cognitive distortions, materialism, and gambling motives. It also showed that low scores in enhancement motives and higher scores in social motives and gambling related cognitions predicted gambling severity in older gamblers, whereas for younger patients, gambling severity was best predicted by higher scores in materialism and coping motives, and lower scores for enhancement and social motives. In the community sample, gambling severity correlated with gambling related cognitive distortions and with gambling motives (except for social and coping motives within the women subsample). These results testify to the importance of materialism, cognitive distortions, and gambling motives as risk factors for problem gambling both in community and clinical samples.

赌博动机和认知失真被认为是相关的，因为应对的动机和财务动机似乎都是与赌博相关的认知失真的预测因素。因此，有一种观点认为，赌博动机，认知扭曲和唯物主义具有共同的属性，并且可能与问题赌博的严重性有关。本文旨在研究在临床和社区环境中这三个变量之间的关系，以了解它们是否可以预测赌博的严重程度。从普通人群中选出250名参与者，从临床人群中选出31名参与者。结果表明，临床样本在赌博严重性，认知失真，唯物主义和赌博动机方面得分较高。研究还表明，增强动机得分较低，社交动机和与赌博相关的认知得分较高，则可以预测老年赌徒的赌博严重程度，而对于年轻患者，赌博严重程度最好由物质主义和应对动机的得分较高以及较低的增强动机来预测和社会动机。在社区样本中，赌博的严重程度与赌博相关的认知扭曲和赌博动机相关（女性子样本中的社交动机和应对动机除外）。这些结果证明了唯物主义，认知失真和赌博动机作为社区和临床样本中问题赌博的风险因素的重要性。较高的物质主义和应对动机得分，以及较低的增强动机和社会动机得分可以最好地预测赌博的严重程度。在社区样本中，赌博的严重程度与赌博相关的认知扭曲和赌博动机相关（女性子样本中的社交动机和应对动机除外）。这些结果证明了唯物主义，认知失真和赌博动机作为社区和临床样本中问题赌博的风险因素的重要性。较高的物质主义和应对动机得分，以及较低的增强动机和社会动机得分可以最好地预测赌博的严重程度。在社区样本中，赌博的严重程度与赌博相关的认知扭曲和赌博动机相关（女性子样本中的社交动机和应对动机除外）。这些结果证明了唯物主义，认知扭曲和赌博动机作为社区和临床样本中问题赌博的风险因素的重要性。