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Latest trends show online gambling began to take over the place of gambling premises. Today, gambling syndicates used tablets and smart phones as a medium for online to ensure their operations is sustained and cannot be detected by the enforcement authorities. Gambling addiction is a compulsive behaviour, where someone is addicted to keep betting and bidding despite the negative consequences they have suffered in the past. This paper presents research on the relationship between internet gambling addiction, impulsive personality and depression amongst civil servants whom involved in online gambling. There were 125 male respondents with highly addicted to online gambling volunteered to participate in our survey. The study used Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI), Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS) and Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS). The results of Pearson correlation showed that gambling addiction significantly correlated with depression and impulsive trait. Results of linear regression showed impulsivity significantly predict 80% of the variance in gambling addiction and became the dominant variable, whilst depression forecast 69% of the variance. The implication of this study implies that since impulsive personality and depression symptoms are very important factors in understanding online gambling addiction thus, any form of treatment or prevention should focus on these two aspects.
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