虽然女性在赌博者人群当中所占的比例没有一个精确的统计数字,但在我们进行自杀流行病学调查研究的过程中,很惊奇地发现为数不少的女性因参与赌博输掉数万元的家产以至自杀身亡。这些现象一方面警示人们赌博是社会文明、家庭幸福的腐蚀剂,同时也提醒社会各界,富裕后的人们更加需要多姿多彩的文艺生活。 从心理学角度和我们的临床经验来分析,在所有的赌博者中有一部分完全符合西方“病理性赌博”的诊断标准。病理性赌博者平时充满对赌博的向往和冲动,放弃正当的文娱活动,更谈不上顾及家庭;对父母、配 Although women do not have an accurate figure on the proportion of the gambler population, in the course of our investigation of suicide epidemiology, I was surprised to find that a large number of women lost tens of thousands of yuan in participating in gambling Family property and even committed suicide. These phenomena, on the one hand, warn people that gambling is a corrosive for social civilization and family happiness. At the same time, they also remind people from all walks of life that people in affluence need more and more colorful literary life. From a psychological point of view and from our clinical experience, some of all gamblers are fully in line with Western “pathological gambling” diagnostic criteria. Pathological gamblers are usually full of longing for gambling and impulse to give up legitimate entertainment activities, let alone take into account the family; for parents, with