Therapeutic Interventions on Pathological Gamblers

The aim of this scientific study was to see the effect of therapeutic interventions on pathological gamblers. 259 subjects were consisted for this study out of these 55 experimental ( treated ) and 55 control ( untreated ) group of pathological gamblers were evaluated at the S.I. Mental and Physical Health Society (SIMPHS), Varanasi, India. All the subjects were matched on the variables of age range 29-65 years with mean age of 48.26 years. Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and Defense Mechanism Inventory were administered one by one at a time. Only those cases were recognized as pathological gamblers who had gambled for an average of minimum three years and were gambling over one-third their monthly incomes. Astrotherapy, psychotherapy and meditation were given to the experimental (treated) group of pathological gamblers for the requirements of the study. Experimental group (treated ) of this study who were attend to the centre for follow-up were requested to complete the questionnaire. Result indicates that experimental group of pathological gamblers have significantly higher on extraversion, projection, and turning against object and significantly lower on neuroticism, psychoticism, reversal, principalization, and turning against self as compared to the control group of pathological gamblers