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Keshavarz, Shahriar, Coventry, Kenny R. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2591-7723 and Fleming, Piers
(2021)
Relative deprivation and hope: Predictors of risk behavior.
Journal of Gambling Studies, 37.
817–835.
ISSN 1050-5350
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Abstract
The belief that one is in a worse situation than similar others (Relative Deprivation) has been associated with involvement in a range of maladaptive escape behaviors, including excessive risk taking. Yet not everyone scoring high on measures of relative deprivation makes maladaptive choices. We hypothesized that hope may ameliorate the negative effects of relative deprivation. In two laboratory-based experiments using a novel risk-taking task (N = 101) we show that hope reduces risk-taking behavior in relatively deprived participants. A third study (N = 122) extended the moderating effect of hope on relative deprivation to real-world risk behavior; increased hope was associated with decreased likelihood of loss of control of one’s gambling behavior in relatively deprived individuals. Nurturing hope in relatively deprived populations may protect them against maladaptive behaviors with potential applications for harm reduction.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | gambling,hope,intervention,relative deprivation,risk,sociology and political science,psychology(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3312 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Cognition, Action and Perception Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Social Cognition Research Group Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2020 01:11 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Apr 2023 00:50 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/77674 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10899-020-09989-4 |
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