Back to results
Eastern Michigan University
Understanding compulsive buying: The dimensions and management of addictive shopping
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>Drawing on messages collected from an internet support group, this paper examines the motivations and dimensions of compulsive shopping as an addictive disorder. Two thousand nonrandom internet messages were collected and subjected to content analyses, resulting in a final sample of 197 subjects. Factor analyses and logistical regression models found varying motivations for compulsive shopping that were not mutually exclusive: the need to escape and the need to fill a void. Subsequently, compulsive shoppers with these motivations were found to manage their shopping differently, specifically in terms of help-seeking behaviors and organizational behaviors.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts (MA)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Open Access Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology
- Year
- 2006
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Wilczaki, Andrew Richard
- Contributors dc:contributor
-
- Roger Kernsmith, PhD, Chair
- Jay Weinstein, PhD
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://commons.emich.edu/theses/186
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:commons.emich.edu:theses-1185