Sadness, identity, and plastic in over-shopping: The interplay of materialism, poor credit management, and emotional buying motives in predicting compulsive buying

Donnelly, Grant Edward; Ksendzova, Masha; Howell, Ryan T.

doi:10.1016/j.joep.2013.07.006

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“…Individuals with depressive mood and anxiety may depend on CB to relieve themselves temporarily from their stressful emotional states. 26,31,32 This hypothesis has generally been supported in the literature. For example, Sneath and his colleagues 33 found that event-induced depression, such as that related to natural disaster, can lead to CB.…”

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Associations between compulsive buying and substance dependence/abuse, major depressive episodes, and generalized anxiety disorder among men and women

Zhang

Brook

Leukefeld

et al. 2016

Journal of Addictive Diseases

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Aims The objective of this study was to examine the associations between compulsive buying (CB) and substance dependence/abuse, major depressive episode (MDE), and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) at mean age 43. Methods Participants came from a community-based random sample of residents in two New York counties (N=548). The participants were followed from adolescence to early midlife. The mean age of participants at the most recent interview was 43.0 (SD=2.8). Fifty five percent of the participants were females. Over 90% of the participants were white. The prevalence of substance dependence/abuse, MDE, and GAD (during the past 5 years before the interviews) was 6.6%, 13.7, and 11.5%, respectively. Results Logistic regression analyses showed that CB was significantly associated with substance dependence/abuse [Adjusted Odds Ratio (A.O.R.) = 1.60], MDE (A.O.R. = 1.70), and GAD (A.O.R. = 1.63), despite controlling for substance dependence/abuse, MDE, and GAD, respectively, at mean age 37, and demographic factors. Discussion Since the study sample is limited to predominantly white participants (over 90%) with a close association to a small geographic area, the findings may not be generalizable to racial/ethnic minority groups or individuals living in other parts of the country. Nevertheless, it is important that clinicians treating substance dependence/abuse, MDE, and GAD consider the role of CB.

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Associations between compulsive buying and substance dependence/abuse, major depressive episodes, and generalized anxiety disorder among men and women

Zhang

Brook

Leukefeld

et al. 2016

Journal of Addictive Diseases

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“…One such construct is compulsive shopping, shown to be a behavior of significant consequences for consumer well-being (Neuner, Raab, & Reisch, 2005). In prior literature, materialism has been shown to lead to compulsive buying (Dittmar, 2005;Donnelly et al, 2013).Our research found materialism to be correlated with low SCC. Compulsive buying is an unhealthy human behavior leading to such negative consequences as consumers running up high debt, unneeded purchases, and guilt and disappointment (Hanley & Wilhelm, 1992;Lo & Harvey, 2011;O'Guinn & Faber, 1992;Pham et al, 2005).…”

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Self-concept clarity: Exploring its role in consumer behavior

Mittal

2015

Journal of Economic Psychology

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“…For this reason, we controlled for age, gender, and individual SES (Donnelly et al, 2013;Howell et al, 2012) in order to determine the unique relation between neighborhood SES and materialism.…”

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Living in wealthy neighborhoods increases material desires and maladaptive consumption

Zhang

Howell

2014

Journal of Consumer Culture

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Despite the presumed national economic benefits that result from high levels of discretionary spending, past studies suggest that material consumption decreases individual economic and subjective well-being. However, most research on the development of materialistic values has examined how persuasive materialistic messages cause materialism. We recruited 2702 participants to test our prediction that living in wealthy neighborhoods should increase material desires and maladaptive consumption in much the same way it decreases happiness. Interestingly, our regression models revealed that individual socioeconomic status (SES) and neighborhood SES have unique, and opposite, predictive patterns of material consumption. Specifically, after controlling for age, gender, and population size, greater neighborhood SES predicted greater desires for material consumption, more impulsive buying, and fewer savings behaviors while individual SES showed the reverse pattern. Our path model suggests that greater neighborhood SES leads to increased material desires, which then predicts more frequent impulsive buying, and fewer savings behaviors. We discuss why neighborhood SES might change values and consumer behaviors.

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Sadness, identity, and plastic in over-shopping: The interplay of materialism, poor credit management, and emotional buying motives in predicting compulsive buying

Cited by 67 publications

References 37 publications

Associations between compulsive buying and substance dependence/abuse, major depressive episodes, and generalized anxiety disorder among men and women

Associations between compulsive buying and substance dependence/abuse, major depressive episodes, and generalized anxiety disorder among men and women

Self-concept clarity: Exploring its role in consumer behavior

Living in wealthy neighborhoods increases material desires and maladaptive consumption

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