When someone’s gambling is problematic, it can harm people in their social network. These people are known as affected others. The authors of this study wanted to better understand the experiences of women as affected others. They analysed the open-text responses from 136 women who gambled and identified as an affected other from an online survey. The women had concerns about the gambling behaviour of a broad range of people in their social network, including partner, family, friends, and others. They described how they had been negatively affected by someone else’s gambling. The responses were categorised into four themes: financial harms, social harms, psychological harms, and harms experienced as a child of someone who gambled.
