Health Advisor

The Lie-Bet questionnaire has been validated as a discriminating tool for pathological gambling behavior. The two items of this short test allow an efficient discrimination between a problematic behavior with excessive gambling and a behavior without negative consequences. The test should be used especially in people with risk factors: financial problems, alcohol, drugs, mental disorders.

1 - Have you ever had to lie to people important to you about how much you gambled?
Yes No
2 - Have you ever felt the need to bet more and more money?
Yes No

Source :
Johnson, E.E., Hamer,R., Nora, R.M., Tan, B., Eistenstein, N., & Englehart, C. (1988). The lie/bet questionnaire for screening pathological gamblers. Psychological Reports, 80, 83-88.
Götestam, K.G.,Johansson, A.,Wenzel, H.G.,Simonsen, I.E. (2004). Validation of the lie/bet screen for pathological gambling on two normal population data sets. Psychological Reports, 95, 1009-13.

The Lie/Bet Questionnaire for screening of pathological gambling