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This study aims to explore the relationships between personality traits, emotion regulation, quality of life, and symptom burden in individuals with gambling disorder.

July 1, 2026Clinics and PracticeOpen Access

Exploratory Associations of Personality Traits, Cognitive Emotion Regulation, and Quality of Life with DSM-Related Symptom Burden in Gambling Disorder

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IIIoana IoniţăCarol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy MMMădălina Iuliana MușatUniversity of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova BCBogdan CătălinUniversity of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova

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Exploratory cross-sectional study examines quality of life and personality impacts on symptom burden in gambling disorder.

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This study aims to explore the relationships between personality traits, emotion regulation, quality of life, and symptom burden in individuals with gambling disorder.
Cross-sectional design involving 122 adults with gambling disorder from a clinical sample in Romania.
Personality assessed with the Personality Clinical Form, emotion regulation with the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, and quality of life with the Quality of Life Inventory.
Symptom burden measured by a nine-item binary DSM-5 symptom burden index.
Severe symptom burden observed with 91.0% classified as severe and 77.9% meeting all DSM-5 criteria.
Personality pathology positively associated with symptom burden, particularly borderline features, while certain coping strategies were negatively correlated.
Quality of life was low overall, linked to personality and coping but not directly to symptom burden.

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Ioniţă et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a44ae315cd2549c8bc43808 https://doi.org/10.3390/clinpract16070122

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