We consider a sample of about 700 people, interviewed on the streets, who are sorted into two groups by a self-report, screening questionnaire: namely, non-problematic gamblers/non-gamblers and problematic gamblers. Within each group, we compare both social (perceived) stigma and self-perceived (experienced) stigma, measured by means of other two self-report questionnaires, and we seek for relations between stigma and socio-demographic variables that can help targeting possible interventions to reduce gambling-related stigma. We, then, compare stigma between the two groups of non-(problematic) gamblers and problematic ones, and we also check the hypothesis that higher social stigma is related to higher self-perceived stigma, as well as higher stigma is related to lesser help-seeking. The latter hypothesis is of utmost importance, given that stigma is recognised to be one of the major causes for hindering help-seeking by problematic gamblers. The research is carried out in Italy, one of the first countries in the world for the money spent per capita in gambling activity every year.

我们考虑了约 700 人的样本，在街头接受采访，他们通过自我报告、筛选问卷分为两组：即无问题赌徒/非赌徒和问题赌徒。在每个组中，我们比较社会（感知）污名和自我感知（经历）污名，通过其他两个自我报告问卷测量，我们寻求污名与社会人口变量之间的关系，以帮助确定可能的干预措施减少与赌博有关的耻辱感。然后，我们比较了两组非（有问题的）赌徒和有问题的赌徒之间的耻辱感，我们还检验了更高的社会耻辱感与更高的自我感知耻辱感相关的假设，以及更高的耻辱感与更少的帮助相关的假设-寻求。后一个假设是最重要的，鉴于耻辱被认为是阻碍问题赌徒寻求帮助的主要原因之一。该研究在意大利进行，意大利是世界上最早投入资金的国家之一人均每年参与赌博活动。