Lo, Hui-Yi and Harvey, Nigel (2012) Effects of shopping addiction on consumer decision-making: Web-based studies in real time. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 1 (4). pp. 162-170. ISSN 2062-5871
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Abstract
Background and aims: Most research into compulsive buying has focused on its causes: questionnaires have been used to study its association with various factors assumed to be important in its etiology. Few studies have dealt with the effects of being a compulsive buyer on shopping decisions. Also, processes underlying compulsive buying are dynamic but questionnaires give access only to a retrospective view of them from the standpoint of the participant. The aim of the current study was to investigate the decision processes underlying compulsive buying. Methods: Two simulated shopping experiments, each with over 100 participants, were used to compare the decision processes of compulsive shoppers with those of non-compulsive shoppers. This approach allowed us to measure many features of consumer decision-making that are relevant to compulsive shopping. Results: Compulsive shoppers differed from general shoppers in six ways: choice characteristics, searching behavior, overspending, budget-consciousness, effects of credit card availability, and emotional responses to overspending. Conclusions: Results are consistent with the view that compulsive buying, like other behavioral addictions, develops because the cognitive system under-predicts the extent of post-addiction craving produced by emotional and visceral processes.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion / filozófia, pszichológia, vallás > BF Psychology / lélektan |
Depositing User: | xFruzsina xPataki |
Date Deposited: | 21 Jun 2017 19:49 |
Last Modified: | 04 Apr 2023 12:57 |
URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/55312 |
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