“…Furthermore, compulsive buyers tend to attach emotional concepts to consumption-related items (e.g., see Kyrios, McQueen, & Moulding, 2013 ). In this perspective, compulsive buying is viewed as an avoidance coping strategy ( Horváth, Büttner, Belei, & Adıgüzel, 2015 ; Lazarus & Folkman, 1984 ; Otero-López & Villardefrancos, 2014 ) that provides only temporary relief from negative affectivity and stress ( Rodríguez-Villarino, González-Lorenzo, Fernández-González, Lameiras-Fernández, & Foltz, 2006 ; Williams, 2012a ). The transient stress-relieving and mood-repairing effects are, however, strongly reinforcing, prompting increasingly addictive compulsive buying whenever emotional distress arises ( Dittmar, Long, & Bond, 2007 ; Grant, Potenza, Weinstein, & Gorelick, 2010 ; Potenza, 2009 ).…”