Abstract

This research is conducted to analyze gambling addict's family stress cases and to develop scales that measure their stress level. On first step, literature review, 68 cases where family member of gambling addict experienced stress were collected and were categorized into 5 categories. On second step, in-depth interview, interview with 5 experts and 3 people who has at least one family member addicted to gambling to attain 36 stress cases. As a result, 104 cases were attained. From collected cases with high similarity, ambiguity were dropped to attain 76 cases with 5 categories. On third step, 16 experts reviewed and evaluated cases' validity to discard uncommon cases. As a result, 57 questions belonging to one of 5 categories, 'family relation', 'gambling addiction', 'finance', 'social', 'mental', were finalized as preliminary questionnaires for stress scale for gambling addict's family. Final questionnaires to be attained from this research can be used usefully in assessing stress levels of family member of gambling addicts and specifying cause of the stress. Finally future works and their utilization are also discussed.