ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the role of gender in the determinants that serve as the risk and compensatory factors that are associated with female and male problem gambling. Addressing positive gambling expectancies may therefore improve prevention and intervention outcomes for both genders. Aspects of quality of life were demonstrated as compensatory factors for both genders, a finding supported by previous research. It may also be that in gender-specific analyses of risk and compensatory factors, the differences observed were not sizeable enough to produce gender interactions in the combined sample. It is one of the first to explore the gender differences in compensatory factors and to investigate the degree to which gender statistically moderates the relationships between risk and compensatory factors and problem gambling. These limitations notwithstanding, the findings of the current study provide important new insights regarding gender differences in the development of problem gambling.
