juego patológico y bienestar psicológico en estudiantes universitarios

Abstract

Pathological gambling or ludopathy is a psychological disorder characterized by a loss of control over the urge to gamble that can generate social, emotional and financial problems. While psychological well-being is the ability of the person to perceive the degree of satisfaction between positive and negative experiences that occur throughout his or her life. The main objective of this study was to determine the relationship between pathological gambling and psychological well-being in college students. The design of the research was quantitative, not experimental, with a correlation range and a cross-cutting. The sample consisted of 118 participants (75.4% male and 24.6% female). The data were collected using the South Oaks compulsive gambling questionnaire (SOGS) and the Ryff Psychological Wellbeing Scale. The results showed a slight negative correlation between the variables studied (p<0.001, Rho=-0.411), which means that at higher level of pathological play lower level of Psychological Wellbeing, where prevailed the level of some problem with the game (57.6%) and moderate psychological wellbeing (47.5%).