
A recent article by Randy Stinchfield (2002) notes that researchers frequently use the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS, Lesieur & Blume, 1987) to assess the prevalence of pathological gambling in the general population. However, the original psychometric properties of the SOGS were not developed for the general population but for four special groups (GA members, university students, psychiatric inpatients, and hospital employees). Only recently has a researcher, (Stinchfield (2002), reported an in-depth analysis of the psychometric properties of the SOGS in a general population, as well as a clinical population. This issue of The WAGER reports procedures and findings pertaining... Read more →