Compulsive Buying and Borderline Personality Symptomatology

Measurement, prevalence and psychological background of compulsive buying

“…In fact, those addicted are over five times more likely to have a borderline personality disorder according to the screening instrument than noncompulsive shoppers. This is also in line with previous findings reporting strong relationship between CBD and BPD symptoms (Sansone, Chang, Jewell, & Sellbom, 2011;Sansone, Chang, Jewell, Sellbom, & Bidwell, 2013;Sansone & Wiederman, 2012).…”

“…Impulsivity was measured by the Hungarian version of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS) (Patton et al, 1995;Varga et al, 2015), Sansone et al, 2011;Varga et al, 2014).…”

“…Compulsive buying and borderline personality disorder not only have common underlying etiological factors, but they also frequently co-occur. For example, Sansone and Wiederman (2012) and Sansone et al (2013) reported that excessive spending and borderline symptomatology are strongly associated (r=0.49 and r=0.43 respectively). In another studies, 15% of self-selected compulsive buyers (7 out of 46) (Schlosser et al, 1994) and 20% of treatment-seeking compulsive buyers (6 out of 30) (Mueller et al, 2009) had BPD.…”

Debt out of control: The links between self-control, compulsive buying, and real debts

“…When controlling for gender, age, educational level and depression, however, urgency was the only significant predictor of compulsive buying. A recent study by Sansone, Chang, Jewell, Sellbom, and Bidwell (2013) also implied that compulsive buying might be primarily driven by impulsivity. In their study female patients with diagnosed borderline personality disorder, which is associated with high levels of impulsivity, showed increased levels of compulsive buying compared to a control group.…”