ABSTRACT
Objective:To explore the relation of negative emotions to erroneous gambling cognition and gambling addiction in college students.Methods:Totally 357 college students in Macau were selected and assessed with the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS),Gambling Related Cognition Scale (GRCS) and South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS).Bootstrap was used to test the mediating effect.Results:The students with higher erroneous gambling cognition got higher scores on negative emotions and addiction gambling than low-score group with erroneous gambling cognition (Ps ＜0.01).Mediating effect test showed that the direct effect of negative emotions on gambling addiction was 0.14,and the indirect effect was 0.05 (Ps ＜0.05).The indirect effect accounted for the total effect 26.3％.Conclusion:It suggests that negative emotions not only have direct effect on gambling addiction,but also have indirect effect on gambling addiction through erroneous gambling related cognition.