Gambling Addiction Questionnaire Test - the question form

1. I believe a person should not feel guilty about their gambling involvement.

2. If I have bad luck in gambling, I will have success in love.

3. I find everyday life boring.

4. There is no incorrect use of a word with multiple meanings in the following sentence: "After spending the whole night and morning playing a computer game, he went to bed only well into the afternoon."

5. From time to time, I worry about setbacks in games or arguments that may not seem significant to others but are important to me.

6. In general, there are no pessimists among people who gamble.

7. I usually gamble for longer than I had planned.

8. The excitement of gambling is stronger than the passion of love.

9. The chance of winning is inversely proportional to the size of the bet.

10. At times I feel that, in an exciting game, spectators see much more than the players themselves do.

11. My motto is: “You can only really get to know people through gambling and travel.”

12. I always say that gambling is not worth it.

13. The statement “to be a knowledgeable gambler, you need to know a lot of gambling slang” is correctly phrased.

14. At times, gambling or another game absorbs me so much that I forget everything else.

15. I firmly believe that betting is a form of gambling in which the outcome of a risk-based agreement to win, made between two or more participants or with the organizer, depends on an event whose occurrence is uncertain.

16. When things go wrong in my life, I tend to blame everyone but myself.

17. I think that under certain circumstances, I could pawn all my possessions to try my luck at gambling.

18. People who achieve what they want at any cost should not be judged.

19. I believe that if a person wants to be sure of winning, they should invent their own game with rules that only they understand.

20. Gambling is a state you enter when you lose control of yourself.

21. Winning the lottery does not mean you have beaten life.

22. I agree with the saying that gambling is a contagious disease of semi-civilized barbarians.

23. If someone tries to convince you that you are the one doing the gambling, it is more likely that the gambling is controlling you.

24. I believe that the most intense risk-taking gambling is done by people who have lost peace of mind.

25. After losing a wager, I feel an urge to return to gambling to win back my losses.

26. Gambling for money does not lead to anything good.

27. It is true that the god of gambling is the devil.

28. People who can afford to gamble do not need money, and people who need money cannot afford to gamble.

29. Excessive gambling often leads to negative consequences.

30. I am usually not bothered by the expected difficulties in an upcoming gambling game.

31. The excitement people seek for pleasure is the best proof that they are unable to find it.

32. The hardest part for me is not losing, but having to stop gambling.

33. If you avoid a game, you lose it from the start.

34. Gambling is interesting even without betting.

35. Sometimes I gamble to escape personal problems or a low mood.

36. I believe that most people who go to gambling clubs or casinos go there not to win, but to win back losses.

37. I doubt that the following statement is correctly phrased: “This gambler accounted for every minute of time.”

38. After a losing game, I often feel aggressive or upset.

39. Gambling is experimenting with chance.

40. At least once a week, I am preoccupied with thoughts about gambling.

41. My friends and close family think I am someone who could become involved in gambling.

42. Gambling, combined with moderate risk-taking, is a sign of a strong person.

43. I believe people start gambling for fun, continue out of stinginess, and end up with gambling becoming a passion.

44. Deep down, I must admit that I enjoy gambling.

45. The sentence “Sasha read materials from the Gamer website and broadened his understanding as a player” seems to me to be incorrectly constructed.

46. Gambling helps us kill something priceless: time.

47. Winnings from gambling include not only money, but also other property, including property rights, that are payable or transferable to the participant when the outcome specified by the gambling organizer’s rules occurs.

48. I believe a person may gamble, but only when they see nothing between themselves and death except their last ruble.

49. At times, my gambling has negatively affected my reputation.

50. Life is like the games: some people come to compete, some to trade, and the happiest come to watch.