The Relationship Between Reported Frequency of Gambling and Rate of Discounting Different Commodities Using a Fill-In-The-Blank Procedure

Authors

Jeffrey N. Weatherly, University of North DakotaFollow
Heather K. Terrell, University of North Dakota
Adam Derenne, University of North Dakota

Abstract

The present study had 302 participants complete temporal-discounting tasks pertaining to five different commodities using the “fill-in-the-blank” method. These data were analyzed using two different equations, and the resulting rates of discounting were correlated with participants’ self-reported frequency of gambling. The discounting data were not entirely consistent with other published data. Statistically significant correlations between discounting and gambling frequency were observed, but varied depending on the type of discounting analysis that was employed and were not always in the same direction as past research

Recommended Citation

Weatherly, Jeffrey N.; Terrell, Heather K.; and Derenne, Adam (2009) "The Relationship Between Reported Frequency of Gambling and Rate of Discounting Different Commodities Using a Fill-In-The-Blank Procedure," Analysis of Gambling Behavior: Vol. 3: Iss. 2, Article 4.
Available at: https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/agb/vol3/iss2/4