Gamblers are a heterogenous group in terms of the presence of comorbid psychopathology, maladaptive personality traits, and motivation to gamble. The Pathways Model, the most promising comprehensive framework to explain this heterogeneity, classifies gamblers into three subtypes.

Una investigación llevada a cabo por un equipo de la Universitat Jaume I de Castellón deja
constancia de que un 38% de los chicos castellonenses juegan diariamente frente a un 8,5% de
chicas

In Mexico, 24.5% of the population aged 12 to 65 have played a betting game at lifetime. Men have higher statistically significant prevalences than women in nearly all types of gambling and in six of the nine symptoms of gambling disorder.