| Title: |
Going for Broke: Self-Compassion, Risky Decision-Making, and Problem Gambling by Undergraduates |
| Authors: |
Bailis, Daniel Seth; Single, Alanna N.; Brais, Nicolas J.; Schellenberg, Benjamin J. I. |
| Publisher Information: |
Center for Open Science |
| Publication Year: |
2020 |
| Description: |
Self-compassionate individuals respond kindly to their own mistakes. Although self-compassion is adaptive in coping with past mistakes, few studies have examined its relationship to risky decision-making in advance. In gambling, an open and understanding disposition toward possible losses could lead to either more or less risky decision-making, and the direction of this relationship could depend on the severity of individuals’ problem gambling. Across 3 laboratory studies with undergraduates, the present research tested how dispositional self-compassion relates to risky decision-making in gambling games, and whether individuals’ severity of problem gambling moderates this relationship. The results suggest that self-compassion has little relationship to gambling decisions by those with no signs of problem gambling already, and that higher self-compassion is associated with taking more gambling risks among undergraduates with low-level or more severe problem gambling. We discuss implications for future research on the complex relationship of self-compassion to risk and well-being. |
| Document Type: |
other/unknown material |
| Language: |
unknown |
| DOI: |
10.31219/osf.io/5xq2e |
| Availability: |
https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/5xq2e |
| Rights: |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.94360003 |
| Database: |
BASE |