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COMPULSIVE SHOPPING DISORDER

COMPULSIVE SHOPPING DISORDER. Compulsive shopping, medically known as oniomania , is a compulsive desire to shop. This disorder gives consumers an emotional lift to overcome depression and anxiety, ultimately leading to financial and personal ruin . My Thesis.

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COMPULSIVE SHOPPING DISORDER

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  1. COMPULSIVE SHOPPING DISORDER Compulsive shopping, medically known as oniomania, is a compulsive desire to shop. This disorder gives consumers an emotional lift to overcome depression and anxiety, ultimately leading to financial and personal ruin.

  2. My Thesis • Compulsive shopping disorder, which is estimated to affect 25 million Americans, is classified as the obsession with shopping for unnecessary items and the inability to resist buying these items as a means of fulfilling an emotional void in ones life. This is a serious addiction that is usually caused by anxiety and depression and leads to financial and personal ruin.

  3. Facts about Compulsive Shopping • Affects 25 million Americans • 6 % of adults, more women than men • Causes of Compulsive Shopping • Low self esteem, depression, anxiety, impulsiveness • Society, internet, shopping channels, and the ease and availability of using credit cards make it easy to impulse shop • This disorder has even been compared to drug and alcohol addiction, as well as kleptomania

  4. Compulsive Buying: A Cognitive -Behavioural Model • Article written by Stephen Kellett and Jessica Bolton • Compulsive shopping is an act of shopping in an irresistible and uncontrollable manner, resulting in expensive and excessive retail activity • Paper explains 4 phases of Compulsive Shopping • 1. Antecedent Factors – early development experiences and family environment • 2. Internal/External Triggers – how internal feeling and emotions as well as the environment causes people to shop on impulse • 3. Act of Purchasing - the actual shopping experiences, compulsive shoppers are oblivious to the world around them; nothing else matters at that time just shopping. • 4. Post – Purchase – final phase where the consumer realizes what purchases were just made and how much money was spent, leading to feelings of shame, guilt, and regret. • * the phase of Post – Purchase is what causes this disorder to be so hard to overcome; it is the start of the vicious cycle that is hard to break.

  5. The cycle of Compulsive Shopping

  6. Conclusion • Overall, Compulsive Shopping is a serious disorder that many Americans suffer from. It is a hard addiction to overcome as we all need to shop to survive, consumers just need to shop in moderation and only for what is truly needed. Consumers battling from this disorder need to seek medical advice before they are completely ruined both financially and personally; especially since this disorder has a never ending cycle if treatment is not found.

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