Reconsidering the roots, structure, and implications of gambling motives: An integrative approach Barrada, Juan R. Navas, Juan F. Ruiz de Lara, Cristian M. Perales López, José César The present study identified Social, Financial, and Fun/thrill-related gambling motives factors, but also a fourth factor in which some positive and negative reinforcement-based motives were grouped into a single and broader Affect regulation factor. This Affect regulation factor shared variance both with BIS and BAS-related measures, and was the only direct predictor of disordered gambling symptoms. The Fun/thrill factor was directly related to frequency of participation in high-arousal, skill-based games, and all factors were related to participation in lower-arousal, chance games (with Social motives negatively predicting both participation in the latter and total severity). In the SEM model, measures of BIS/BAS sensitivity were connected to gambling behavior only through gambling motives. Based on measures of items’ specificity, a shortened Spanish scale (the brief Gambling Motives Inventory, bGMI) is proposed to assess gambling motives in accordance with the observed 4-factor structure. 2020-01-22T11:20:19Z 2020-01-22T11:20:19Z 2019-02-22 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Barrada JR, Navas JF, Ruiz de Lara CM, Billieux J, Devos G, Perales JC (2019) Reconsidering the roots, structure, and implications of gambling motives: An integrative approach. PLoS ONE 14(2): e0212695. http://hdl.handle.net/10481/59010 10.1371/journal.pone.0212695 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España PLOS