Abstract
Although spirituality has been considered a protective factor against shopping addiction, the mechanisms involved in this relationship are still poorly recognized. The present study aims to test the association of daily spiritual experiences, self-efficacy, and gender with shopping addiction. The sample consisted of 430 young adults (275 women and 155 men), with a mean age of 20.44 (SD = 1.70). The Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale, the General Self-Efficacy Scale, and the Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale were used to measure the study variables. The results showed that: (1) Daily spiritual experiences had a direct negative effect on shopping addiction; (2) daily spiritual experiences were positively related to self-efficacy, thought the effect was moderated by gender; (3) self-efficacy negatively correlated with a shopping addiction; and (4) the indirect effect of daily spiritual experiences on shopping addiction through self-efficacy was significant for women but insignificant for men. The findings confirm that spirituality protects young adults against developing a shopping addiction. They also suggest that when introducing spiritual issues into shopping addiction prevention or treatment programs, the gender-specific effects of spirituality on shopping addiction via self-efficacy should be considered to adequately utilize young women’s and men’s spiritual resources.
Highlights
Apart from testing the relationships between daily spiritual experiences, self-efficacy, and shopping addiction, we aim to examine whether the relationship between daily spiritual experiences and self-efficacy is further moderated by gender
Self-efficacy was negatively related to shopping addiction (p = 0.001)
The results suggest that a higher level of spirituality may reduce the symptoms of shopping addiction by enhancing self-efficacy, but only among women
Summary
For most people, shopping is a routine part of everyday activities, a way of getting necessary goods. At the beginning of the free-market era, Poles were fascinated by the abundance and variety of consumer goods after the period of shortages characteristic of a centrally planned economy Material goods, which they often purchased in excess, were an indicator of luxury and served as a source of social approval or exclusion (Tarka and Babaev 2020). According to Andreassen (2014), compulsive buying is best understood from an addiction perspective In line with this view, several authors have argued that compulsive buying could be conceptually considered as a type of behavioral addiction since it contains the core components of addiction: salience (including cravings), withdrawal, mood modification, tolerance, problems, and relapse (Aboujaoude 2014; Clark and Calleja 2008; Weinstein et al 2016). We aim to test whether the indirect effect is further conditional on gender
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