加密货币交易与赌博严重程度的相关性研究

Abstract Background and aims Cryptocurrency trading has become a popular activity worldwide, which has been correlated with harmful gambling as measured by the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI). However, in addition to being non-causal, these correlations may partly or in whole follow from methodological weaknesses, such as failing to screen out non-gamblers, or failing to instruct participants to not consider cryptocurrency trading a form of gambling. Methods In a large-scale pre-registered 2 × 2 online experiment (N = 4,781), we hypothesised that if observed correlations were driven by