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Nicki A. Dowling

Nicki A. Dowling

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Psychology

D-Index
46
Citations
7504
World Ranking
6470
National Ranking
379

Overview

Nicki A. Dowling is affiliated with Deakin University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and medicine, with a significant number of publications in clinical psychology, applied psychology, general health professions, epidemiology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The main topics covered by Nicki A. Dowling's work include:

  • Gambling Behavior and Treatments
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

Nicki A. Dowling has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Global prevalence of help-seeking for problem gambling: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2022, Addiction
  • The efficacy of Personalized Normative Feedback interventions across addictions: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Do EGMs have a Stronger Association with Problem Gambling than Racing and Casino Table Games? Evidence from a Decade of Australian Prevalence Studies, 2020, Journal of Gambling Studies
  • ChatGPT for Automated Qualitative Research: Content Analysis, 2024, Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Gambling prevalence and gambling problems amongst land-based-only, online-only and mixed-mode gamblers in Australia: A national study, 2022, Computers in Human Behavior

The scientist has frequently published in journals such as:

  • Journal of Gambling Studies
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Addiction
  • Journal of Behavioral Addictions
  • Addictive Behaviors

Collaborations have been established with various co-authors, with the most frequent being:

  • Stephanie Merkouris
  • Simone N. Rodda
  • George J. Youssef
  • Matthew Rockloff
  • Matthew Browne

Best Publications

  • Early risk and protective factors for problem gambling: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.

    Nicki Dowling;Nicki Dowling;Nicki Dowling;S S Merkouris;C J Greenwood;E Oldenhof

  • Electronic gaming machines: are they the 'crack-cocaine' of gambling?

    Nicki Andrea Dowling;David Smith;Trang Thomas

  • Psychological therapies for pathological and problem gambling

    Sean Cowlishaw;Stephanie Merkouris;Nicki Andrea Dowling;Christopher John Anderson

  • Prevalence of psychiatric co-morbidity in treatment-seeking problem gamblers: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Nicole Andrea Dowling;Sean Cowlishaw;Alun C Jackson;Stephanie Merkouris

  • Screening for Internet dependence: do the proposed diagnostic criteria differentiate normal from dependent Internet use?

    Nicki A. Dowling;Kelly L. Quirk

  • Problem Gambling and Intimate Partner Violence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Nicki A Dowling;Aino Suomi;Alun C Jackson;Tiffany Lavis

  • An Update on Gender Differences in the Characteristics Associated with Problem Gambling: a Systematic Review

    Stephanie S. Merkouris;Anna C. Thomas;Anna C. Thomas;Kerrie A. Shandley;Simone N. Rodda;Simone N. Rodda;Simone N. Rodda

  • Financial management practices and money attitudes as determinants of financial problems and dissatisfaction in young male Australian workers

    Nicki A. Dowling;Tim Corney;Lauren Hoiles

  • The impact of financial management practices and financial attitudes on the relationship between materialism and compulsive buying

    Thi Pham;Keong Yap;Nicki Andrea Dowling

  • Problem gambling and family violence: family member reports of prevalence, family impacts and family coping

    Aino Suomi;Aino Suomi;Alun C Jackson;Nicki Andrea Dowling;Nicki Andrea Dowling;Tiffany Lavis

  • Adolescent gambling behaviour and attitudes: A prevalence study and correlates in an Australian population

    Alun C Jackson;Alun C Jackson;Nicki Andrea Dowling;Shane Thomas;Shane Thomas;Shane Thomas;Lyndal Bond

  • The impacts of problem gambling on concerned significant others accessing web-based counselling.

    Nicki Andrea Dowling;Nicki Andrea Dowling;Nicki Andrea Dowling;Simone Nicole Rodda;Dan Lubman;Alun C Jackson

  • Gambling Motives: Application of the Reasons for Gambling Questionnaire in an Australian Population Survey

    Kate Francis;Nicki Andrea Dowling;Nicki Andrea Dowling;Nicki Andrea Dowling;Alun C Jackson;Darren R Christensen

  • The Family Functioning of Female Pathological Gamblers.

    Nicki Dowling;David Smith;Trang Thomas

  • A comparison of individual and group cognitive-behavioural treatment for female pathological gambling

    Nicki Dowling;David Smith;Trang Thomas

  • Mindfulness and Problem Gambling: A Review of the Literature

    Stephen M. de Lisle;Nicki A. Dowling;J. Sabura Allen

  • Global prevalence of help‐seeking for problem gambling: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

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  • Towards an integrated model of leadership and self regulation

    Simon Andrew Moss;Nicki Andrea Dowling;John Paul Callanan

  • Problem gambling subtypes based on psychological distress, alcohol abuse and impulsivity.

    Aino Suomi;Aino Suomi;Nicki Andrea Dowling;Alun C Jackson

  • Predictors of outcomes of psychological treatments for disordered gambling: A systematic review

    S.S. Merkouris;S.S. Merkouris;S.A. Thomas;C.J. Browning;N.A. Dowling

  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Problem Gambling:

    Stephen M. de Lisle;Nicki A. Dowling;J. Sabura Allen

  • Financial Management Practices and Money Attitudes as Determinants of Financial Problems and Dissatisfaction in Young Male Australian Workers

    Nicki A. Dowling;Corney Tim;Lauren Hoiles

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan I. Lubman
Dan I. Lubman Monash University
Victoria Manning
Victoria Manning Monash University
Malcolm Battersby
Malcolm Battersby Flinders University
Peter G. Enticott
Peter G. Enticott Deakin University
Max Abbott
Max Abbott Auckland University of Technology
John W. Toumbourou
John W. Toumbourou Deakin University
Rachel A. Volberg
Rachel A. Volberg University of Massachusetts Amherst
David C. Hodgins
David C. Hodgins University of Calgary
John L. Bradshaw
John L. Bradshaw Monash University
Julie C. Stout
Julie C. Stout Monash University

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