Journal article
Compulsive Buying Tendencies
Psychological reports, v 117(3), pp 649-655
Dec 2015
PMID: 26595285
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Abstract
Compulsive buying behavior is typically viewed as pathological, but recent research has shown that compulsive buying tendencies are associated with attitudes toward money, personal financial behavior, and having materialistic values, suggesting that compulsive buyers are manifesting an extreme form of habits shown by people in general. In a study of 240 community residents, scores on the Compulsive Buying Scale were associated positively with scores on the Material Values Scale and the Canadian Problem Gambling Index, and negatively with scores on the Executive Personal Finance Scale and Ardelt's wisdom scale. These results suggest that, as is the case for many abnormal behaviors, tendencies toward compulsive buying may not be pathological, but are associated with attitudes toward money in general, financial management behavior, and materialistic values.
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- Title
- Compulsive Buying Tendencies
- Creators
- Marcello Spinella - Stockton UniversityDavid Lester - Stockton UniversityBijou Yang - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Psychological reports, v 117(3), pp 649-655
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Economics (School of Economics)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000366386100002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84951923527
- Other Identifier
- 991019339708104721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Psychology, Multidisciplinary