A1 |
Kang JH (2018) |
To examine the relationship between the gambling addicts' good deed experiences and the recovery from addiction through looking at their good deed experiences. |
N=8 (3/5) |
Giorgi's phenomenological method |
5 themes |
41~78 years old (-) |
- Good deed |
- Unlocking good nature |
- Self-reflection |
- Feeling responsibility |
- Finding new role |
A2 |
Kang JH, Kim YH, Lee DJ (2019) |
To explore how inferiority complex is related to gambling addiction and how gamblers overcome inferiority in the course of recovery. |
N=9 (4/5) |
Giorgi's phenomenological method |
9 themes |
39~62 years old (-) |
- Economic inferiority complex |
- Best way to overcome inferiority complex (gambling) |
- Temporary superiority |
- Frustration and lingering affection |
- New inferiority complex |
- Building support systems |
- Mind control |
- Alternative activities |
- Finding satisfaction |
A3 |
Kang JH, Um DW, Lee HK (2017) |
To examine the recovering gambling addicts' overcoming process on their hardships of life which hamper their recovery. |
N=10 (5/5) |
Grounded theory process suggested by Strauss and Corbin |
131 concepts were constructed, and they were classified into |
44~76 years old (-) |
32 subcategories and 14 categories. |
A4 |
Kang JH, Lee HK (2016) |
To examine how a person's sense is changing in the process of gambling addiction and recovery |
N=10 (5/5) |
Giorgi's phenomenological method |
Meaningful units were categorized into 18 'emerging |
39~76 years old (-) |
themes', and integrated by the total of 6 'essential themes.' |
A5 |
Kang JH, Lee HK (2016) |
To examine how a person's senses, feelings, thoughts and actions which are basic constituents of human existence, has changed in the gambling addicts' recovering process |
N=10 (5/5) |
Giorgi's phenomenological method |
- Dull senses |
39~76 years old (-) |
- Fixation of thoughts |
- Ambivalent feelings |
- Loss of control |
- Recovery of senses |
- Reconstruction of thoughts |
- Relaxed feelings |
- Abstinent life |
A6 |
Kang JH, Lee HK (2019) |
To ascertain what makes the existential experiences possible in the recovery process of gambling addicts and how it shapes the will of gambling abstinence |
N=8 (1/7) |
Hermeneutic phenomenology approach |
3 steps |
42~62 years old (19 month~18 years) |
- First step: existential self-consciousness |
- Second step: struggle (inner conflict) |
- Third step: mastering existence |
A7 |
Kang JH, Joo WT (2018) |
To explore the recovery experience of the elderly gamblers. |
N=5 (3/2) |
Case study method |
13 topics |
62~80 years old (12~15 years) |
- Elderly gamblers started to stop gambling through disillusionment and death anxiety |
- Conflicted in the process of recovery due to the loneliness, the regret of the years, the anxious aging, the old body, the joyfulness, and the temptation of life gambling. |
- Escaping from gambling addiction by constructing a new life-world, overcoming everyday obstacles, self-reflection through others, alternative activities, and having simple dreams and hope creation. |
A8 |
Kang JH, Choi Y (2018) |
To explore the experience of suicide attempts and the recovery experiences of gambling addicts |
N=10 (1/9) |
Phenomenological method |
1. Five topics |
39~76 years old (-) |
- Floor experience and breakdown |
- Fluctuation |
- Support of others |
- Awareness |
- Finding a new way of life |
2. The essential theme |
Overcome suicide crisis caused by 'floor experience' with support and awareness of others and discover new ways of life style rather than gambling |
A9 |
Kim KH, Kang JH (2020) |
To explore a gambling addict's good deed and recovery experience through G. A. By focusing on the traits of G. A. In South Korea |
N=9 (0/9) |
Case study method |
12 topics: |
Born in 1939~1983 (GA participate in 2~39 years) |
G. A. in South Korea is identified to have traits that are |
- Voluntary and active participation |
- Regular meeting |
- Openness and expandability |
- Forming and reinforcing social relationships.' |
Gambling addicts, according to these traits, experienced good deeds consisted of |
- Operational supports including official duty |
- Supports for new and exiting members |
- The extension of the good deeds |
Gambling addicts recovered through |
- Perceiving self positively |
- Perceiving others positively |
- Self-reflection and forgiveness |
- Enhancing responsibility |
- Discovering new life values |
Overall, a good deed in G. A. is defined as 'inner-changing recovery through relationships with fellow members.' |
A10 |
Kim YN, Kwon SJ (2020) |
To understand the development and recovery process of adolescents' gambling problems and the psychological and social factors associated with the process |
N=30 (2/28) |
Grounded theory methodology |
A total of 23 higher categories, 62 lower categories, and 156 conceptualizations. |
16~20 years old (-) |
A11 |
Kim YG, Lee SY (2020) |
To understand the essential meaning of community experience of long-term gambling abstinence residents near Kangwonland |
N=5 (2/3) |
Phenomenological method |
4 essential themes: |
53~67 years old (3~9 years) |
- Recovery of everydayness |
- Self-care |
- Connected with significant other |
- Social recognition |
The community experiences of long-term gambling abstinence residents near Kangwonland are in the process of restoring everydayness, they are "struggling" to feel happy and to receive social recognition from the other residents through self-care and connection with the significant other. |
A12 |
Kim YG, Lee SY (2021) |
To understand the recovery experience of everyday life of the applicants for casino self-exclusion program living near Kangwon Land Casino |
N=4 (3/1) |
Everyday life research |
Main theme: |
52~66 years old (3~6 years) |
- To live life diligently |
- Accepting the mediocrity of everyday life as well as the obvious but not easy daily routines. |
1. In the maintenance and alteration of subjective reality, the subjective reality appeared as a daily struggle of constant effort for a normal life after the permanent suspension, and the factors that changed subjective reality included recognition of vulnerability to gambling addiction, guilt, and COVID-19 pandemic. |
2. the significant others were family members, friends, field experts, and fellow recoverers. Adaptation strategies were found to be working for a living, working for proof of ability, working for future preparation, living as an autonomous entity, and helping other gamblers recover. |
A13 |
Kim HS, Park SG (2015) |
To analyze the nature and meaning of the recovery from gambling addiction by questing for the recovery experiences of the compulsive gambler without exaggeration from the point of view of participants themselves To suggest the practical bases for the reason why they need GA in the process as well as the political and practical alternatives. |
N=12 (0/12) |
Qualitative study, phenomenological Colaizzi's approach |
79 meaning units, 19 theme units and 5 categories were classified. |
40~70 years old approximately (7~27 years) |
GA was classified as 5 categories. |
- 'Not receptive to GA', |
- 'Receptive to GA', |
- 'Gradual participation in GA', |
- 'Follows GA principles in everyday life' |
- 'Grace of the Greater Power'. Spiritual orientation is an important aspect of their recovery. |
A14 |
Shim SH (2018) |
To explore the meaning of spirituality experience in the recovery process of gambling addiction; To understand the essence of the experience to provide a passage of spiritual intervention based on experience to the therapeutic approach of gambling addiction. |
N=10 (0/10) |
Spirituality experience study methodology of pastoral theology |
In terms of main characteristics on the order of spiritual journey such as before the spirituality experience, experience process and its result. |
38~56 years old (5~25 years) |
In addition, the role of Christian counselor was proposed as the interpreter of the spiritual journey in the process of recovery. |
A15 |
Yoon MS, Chae WS (2010) |
To develop the entity theory on the recovering process from gambling addiction. |
N=7 (0/7) |
Qualitative study grounded theory methodology suggested by Strauss and Corbin (1990) |
1) The casual condition was 'Being cut off money; |
52 years old (average) (10 years average) |
- 'Losing the will', |
- 'Shame' |
- 'Repent' |
- 'Wanting to die'. |
2) The core phenomenon was 'Giving up the dream of hitting the jackpot'. |
The intervening condition to boost this phenomenon was 'Being helped by friends', 'Being supported by the police', 'Being led by the family', 'Showing the willpower'. |
3) The action/interaction strategies were identified as 'Cutting off the flow of funds', 'Overcoming the temptation of gambling', 'Diverting attention to other things', ending up 'Being conscious of family' Growing up', 'Being free'. |
4) The core concept in the process of overcoming the gambling addiction was revealed as 'Being free by giving up the dream of hitting the jackpot'. |
5) The process of getting over the gambling addiction was |
- The dream of hitting the jackpot being shattered, |
- Giving up the dream of hitting the jackpot, |
-' Getting out of it', and 'Being free'. |
6) The study participants (4 types) |
- 'Challenging type', |
- 'Enjoying type', |
- 'Showing off type', |
- 'Obsessive type'. |
A16 |
Lee KM, Kang SK, Thak PK (2015) |
To identify the factors that impede the gambling abstinence attempted by gamblers who experience gambling relapses; To investigate how to manage and control their gambling exposure risk situations |
N=16 (11/5) |
Qualitative content analysis study Krippendorff's content analysis |
4 dimensions |
39~67 years old (1~3 years) |
- Social dimension: social isolation and excessive confrontation |
- Family dimension: avoidance, conflict, sense of distance, onlooking, and false masks |
- Physical dimension: somatization symptoms |
- Psychological and Emotional dimensions: embroilment, helplessness, self-pity, resentment and anger, indolence |
A17 |
Lee KM, Lee HK (2019) |
To investigate the recovery process and contents of the restorers who escape from gambling addiction. |
N=10 (0/10) |
Qualitative longitudinal case study |
- Family life was a process of overcoming the confusion and distrust and wrapping the wound through mutual growth. |
43~58 years old (-) |
- Economic life appeared as a process of liberation from money by infusing personality with money. |
- Strategy was to reform the everyday life and expand the denotation of gambling addiction. |
A18 |
Lee DJ, Kang JH (2020) |
To examine the relationship between self-reflection and maintain recovering gambling addicts researching detail in the gambling addicts' good deed. |
N=10 (0/10) |
Giorgi's phenomenological method |
5 themes |
38~82 years old (2~35 years) |
- 'Bottom feeder' |
- 'Forced recovering gambling addicts' |
- 'Experiencing good deed' |
- 'Self-Reflection (changing from good deed)' |
- 'Self-Authorization (authentic way of recovery)'. |
- < general structure technology as |
'Changing Forced recovering gambling addicts into |
Authentic recovering gambling addicts through self-reflection and self-authorization taking this opportunity experiencing good deed'. |
A19 |
Lee DJ, Kim KH, Maeng SJ, Kang JH (2021) |
To examine through the grounded theory that GA participants recover through good works. |
N=10 (0/10) |
Grounded theory method |
- Force GA participation |
38~49 years old (2~35 years) |
- Colleague support |
- GA operation support |
- Advancement experience |
- Opportunity |
- Talent |
GA's structural Ten themes could be derived, including 'characteristics', 'continuation of good deeds', 'expansion of good deeds', and 'real gambling'. the core category of 'going from forced gambling to true single gambling through advanced experience' is assumed, 'advanced expansion type', 'recovery expert type', 'activity maintenance type', 'mixed type' |
A20 |
Lee KM, Lee HK (2019) |
To understand the meaning of stigma, reaction, coping, and results. |
N=9 (0/9) |
Phenomenological study |
48 topics were derived. |
46~58 years old (3~13 years) |
The researchers found that their recover experiences mean |
'a great resignation' |
'making road to the society' |
'an evolution to a positive human being' |
'going against a rule of gravitation in stigma', |
'a present of freedom from of growth', |
'making miracle through hope' |
'a ritual of new life through self-renewal'. |
A22 |
Hong HM, Kim YG (2014) |
To analyze a life history of an elderly female gambler who gambled about thirty years. Authors interpreted lived-experience and various kind of meanings of gambling. |
N=1 (1/0) |
Life history |
Theme of narrative was 'Others seduced me to go awry from my innocent ways/3 segments and results of analysis |
63 years old (26 month) |
- Her first gambling experience was a consequence of 'dialectical interaction of oppression and deviation/ |
- Her second gambling experience in Japan was a consequence of 'reciprocal action of diachronic and synchronic conditions' |
- Her last gambling experience in Kangwonland was the process of change 'from legitimated gambler to panhandler, and recovery again' |
A23 |
Lee EJ, Kim JR (2020) |
To describe the experience of people with gambling disorder, who Participated in the therapeutic community. |
N=10 (1/9) |
Qualitative study |
Seven categories and 14 subcategories |
39.9 years old (average) (11 years old average) |
- Trusting in a warm and safe environment; |
- Being comforted by colleagues' empathy; |
- Recognition of personal problems through colleagues' stories; |
- Recognition of personal wrong values through philosophy; |
- Recognition of a personal problem with lifestyle; |
- Empathizing with family members; |
- Development of the ability to recognize and cope with relapse |