Compulsive Buying in University Students: its Prevalence and Relationships with Materialism, Psychological Distress Symptoms, and Subjective Well-being

Compulsive buying has become a severe problem among young people. The prominent role that psychological variables play in this phenomenon support their consideration in establishing a risk profile for compulsive buying that serves as a guide for the development of prevention and treatment programs with guarantees of effectiveness. However, there are only a small number of studies in existence which have explored the compulsive buying prevalence among students, and none of them have been conducted in a Mediterranean country.
Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research