Abstract
BackgroundThe purpose of the present study was to comprehensively examine the measurement aspects, the prevalence, and the psychological correlates of problem shopping among a large-scale national sample of Turkish adults.ResultParticipants (N = 24,380, 50% men, M age = 31.79 years, age range = 18–81 years) completed a questionnaire that comprised the Shopping Addiction Risk Questionnaire, the Brief Symptom Inventory, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, and the Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised. Results showed that 1.8% of the participants had probable shopping addiction. Being female, being younger, psychiatric distress, positive affect, negative affect, anxious attachment, and avoidant attachment were positive correlates of problem shopping.ConclusionThe results of this large sample size study suggest that shopping addiction is not a rare condition in Turkey. Further research is needed to understand different motives that underlie the problematic shopping behavior in the young and female population in comparison to older and male populations. Preventive programs or any interventions for people with PSB needs to address regulation difficulties and development of healthy strategies to cope with psychiatric distress.
Highlights
Shopping is part of everyday life but it may become problematic when it goes beyond meeting the shelter, nutrition, education, health, and recreational needs of the person and starts to limit the person’s personal and social life and cause the person to be financially and morally negatively affected
Preventive programs or any interventions for people with Problematic shopping behavior (PSB) needs to address regulation difficulties and development of healthy strategies to cope with psychiatric distress
Our study provides important contributions to the literature in this field by evaluating the variables associated with problematic shopping behavior as well as evaluating attachment styles
Summary
Shopping is part of everyday life but it may become problematic when it goes beyond meeting the shelter, nutrition, education, health, and recreational needs of the person and starts to limit the person’s personal and social life and cause the person to be financially and morally negatively affected. In the globalized and hyperconnected world of the twenty-first century, excessive shopping has become a problem for all societies. What distinguishes shopping addiction (SA) phenomena from. Problematic shopping behavior (PSB) was defined as “oniomania ’’ by both Bleuler and Kraepelin in the early twentieth century [2]. It has been unclear whether this is a problem with impulse control, or a variant of obsessive–compulsive disorder or an addictive disorder. The purpose of the present study was to comprehensively examine the measurement aspects, the prevalence, and the psychological correlates of problem shopping among a large-scale national sample of Turkish adults
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