Journal articles and book chapters

A selection of published articles from the past 5 years authored by Gambling and Addictions Research Centre's members are listed here.

  • Bellringer, M. E. (2023). Brief interventions for gambling disorder: A short overview and case study in New Zealand. In J. Landon, S. Rodda, & M. Zangeneh (Eds.). Problem gambling counselling and treatment approaches (pp. 5–24). Canada: CDSPress. https://cdspress.ca/?page_id=4812
  • Bellringer, M. E., Janicot, S., Ikeda, T. (2023). Changes in some health and lifestyle behaviours are significantly associated with changes in gambling behaviours: Findings from a longitudinal New Zealand population study. Addictive Behaviors, 149, 107886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2023.107886
  • Fehoko, E. S., Bellringer, M. E., & Fairbairn-Dunlop, P. (2023). The interface of gambling and cultural practices: A Tongan male perspective in Aotearoa / New Zealand. Frontiers in Sociology, 8, 1116312. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1116312
  • Fehoko, E. S., Bellringer, M. E. & Fairbairn-Dunlop, P. (2022). Culture, church, and collective: A qualitative study about gambling harm prevention and reduction in Aotearoa/New Zealand - A Tongan male perspective. Harm Reduction Journal, 19, 134. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-022-00717-2
  • Wang, G. Y., & Bellringer, M. E. (2022). Social connectedness and associations with gambling risk in New Zealand. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 11, 7123. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11237123
  • Rockloff, M., Armstrong, T., Hing, N., Browne, M., Russell, A. M. T., Bellringer, M., Palmer du Preez, K., & Lowe, G. (2022). Legacy gambling harms: What happens once the gambling stops? Current Addiction Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-022-00434-7
  • Fehoko, E.S., Bellringer, M.E., & Fairbairn-Dunlop, P. (2022). Learning from home, schools, and the media: Exploring the learning of gambling from a Tongan male youth perspective in New Zealand. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health. OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1177/10105395221107854
  • Phillips, J.G., & Ogeil, R. P. (2022).  Remote detection of cannabis-related impairments in performance.  Psychopharmacology.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-022-06145-1
  • Bellringer, M. E., & Garrett, N. (2021). Risk factors for increased online gambling during COVID-19 lockdowns in New Zealand: A longitudinal study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(24),12946. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182412946
  • Booth, N., Dowling, N. A., Landon, J., Lubman, D. L., Merkouris, S. S., & Rodda, S. N.  (2021). Affected others responsivity to gambling harm: An international taxonomy of consumer-derived behaviour change techniques.  Journal of Clinical Medicine, 10, 583.  https://doi.org/ 10.3390/jcm10040583
  • Landon, J., Bellringer, M., Palmer du Preez, K., Will, U., Mauchline, L., & Roberts, A. (2021). “The bad things that happened are kind of good things”: Exploring gambling among residents of a transitional housing service. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-021-00530-1
  • Palmer du Preez, K., Landon, J., Mauchline, L., & Thurlow, R.  (2021)  A critical analysis of interventions for women harmed by others’ gambling.  Critical Gambling Studies, 2, 1-12.  https://doi.org/10.29173/cgs76
  • Palmer du Preez, K., Paavonen, A-M., & Bellringer, M. E. (2021). Theoretically informed gender analysis for gambling harm reduction: A New Zealand study. Harm Reduction Journal, 18, 111. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-021-00558-5
  • McCarthy, S., Pitt, H., Bellringer, M. E., & Thomas, S. L. (2021). Strategies to prevent and reduce gambling harm in Australian women. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687637.2021.1973963
  • Bellringer, M. E., Pearson, J., & Iusitini, L. (2021). Pre-teen gang involvement is associated with teenage gambling behaviour: Exploratory findings from a longitudinal cohort study of Pacific youth in New Zealand. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F10105395211041183
  • McCarthy, S., Pitt, H., Bellringer, M. E., & Thomas, S. L. (2021). Electronic gambling machine harm in older women: A public health determinants perspective. Addiction Research & Theory. https://doi.org/10.1080/16066359.2021.1906864
  • Landon, J., Bellringer, M., Palmer du Preez, K., Will, U., Mauchline, L., & Roberts, A. (2021). “The bad things that happened are kind of good things”: Exploring gambling among residents of a transitional housing service. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-021-00530-1
  • McCarthy, S., Thomas, S. L., Pitt, H., & Bellringer, M. E. (2021). “You don’t really see the dangers of it at the time.” Risk perceptions and behaviours of older female gamblers. Social Science & Medicine, 272.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113674
  • Wang, G. Y., & Crook-Rumsey, M. (2021). Aggression in substance use treatment seekers. Personality and Individual Differences, 180. https://doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.110997
  • Wang, G. Y., Premkumar, P., Lee, C., & Griffiths, M. D. (2021). The role of criticism in expressed emotion among psychoactive substance users: An experimental vignette study. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. https://doi:10.1007/s11469-021-00591-2
  • Palmer du Preez, K., Thurlow, R., & Bellringer, M. (2020). Women in gambling studies: A poststructural analysis. Addiction Research and Theory.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/16066359.2020.1840559
  • Abbott, M. W. (2019). Professionally delivered interventions for gambling disorder. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 32, 313–319.
  • Abbott, M. W. (2019). Self-directed interventions for gambling disorder. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 32, 307–312.
  • Smith, M., Chambers, T., Abbott, M., & Signal, L. (2019). High stakes: Children’s exposure to gambling and gambling marketing using wearable cameras. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-019-00103-3
  • McCarthy, S., Thomas, S. L., Bellringer, M. E., & Cassidy, R. (2019). Women and gambling-related harm: A narrative literature review and implications for research, policy, and practice. Harm Reduction Journal, 16, 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-019-0284-8
  • Landon, J., Grayson, E., & Roberts, A. (2018). An exploratory study of the impacts of gambling on affected others accessing a social service. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 16(3), 573-587.
  • Ranta, J., Bellringer, M., Garrett, N. & Abbott, M. (2018). Can a brief telephone intervention for problem gambling help to reduce co-existing depression? A three-year prospective study in New Zealand. Journal of Gambling Studies, Online First. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-018-9783-x
  • Palmer du Preez, K., Bellringer, M., Pearson, J., Dowling, N., Suomi, A., Koziol-McLain, J., Wilson, D., & Jackson, A. (2018). Family violence in gambling help-seeking populations. International Gambling Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14459795.2018.1480648
  • Rawat, V., Browne, M., Bellringer, M., Greer, N., Kolandai-Matchett, K., Rockloff, M., Langham, E., Hanley, C., Palmer du Preez, K., & Abbott, M. (2018). A tale of two countries: Comparing disability weights for gambling problems in New Zealand and Australia. Quality of Life Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-018-1882-8
  • Abbott, M., Hodgins, D.C., Bellringer, M., Vandal, A.C., Palmer du Preez, K., Landon, J., Sullivan, S., Rodda, S., & Feigin, V. (2018). Brief telephone interventions for problem gambling: A randomised controlled trial. Addiction, 113, 883-895. doi:10.1111/add.14149
  • Suomi, A., Dowling, N.A., Thomas, S., Abbott, M., Bellringer, M., Battersby, M., Koziol-McLain, J., Lavis, T., & Jackson, A.C. (2018). Patterns of family and intimate partner violence in problem gamblers. Journal of Gambling Studies, doi.org/10.1007/s10899-018-9768-9
  • Kolandai-Matchett, K., Landon, J., Bellringer, M., & Abbott, M. (2018). A national public health programme on gambling policy development in New Zealand: Insights from a process evaluation. Harm Reduction Journal, 15(11). doi.org/10.1186/s12954-018-0217-y
  • Abbott, M., Hodgins, D.C., Bellringer, M., Vandal, A.C., Palmer Du Preez, K., Landon, J., Sullivan, S., Rodda, S., and Feigin, V. (2018). Brief telephone interventions for problem gambling: A randomized controlled trial. Addiction, doi: 10.1111/add.14149.

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