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- Title
Analyzing Motivational Determinants of Shopping Addiction Tendency.
- Authors
KİREZLİ, Özge; ARSLAN, Fatma Müge
- Abstract
Shopping addiction tendency is defined as being so occupied about shopping that consumers become driven by uncontrollable shopping urges and as a result of facing negative psychological, social and financial consequences. Based on a field study on university students (N=372), this paper examines hedonic shopping, escapism and negative mood reduction, as motivational determinants of shopping addiction tendency, which is a relatively less studied area of consumer behavior in Turkey. The findings indicate that, hedonic shopping, escapism and negative mood reduction all have significant effect on shopping addiction. Getting its mainstream studies from compulsive buying literature, shopping addiction literature focuses mainly on the enjoyment gathered from shopping action However this study provides new insights into potential antecedents of shopping addiction as negativity avoidance and escapism, which are negative psychological states with respect to shopping addicts quest for shopping enjoyment.
- Subjects
CONSUMER behavior; COMPULSIVE shopping; MOTIVATION (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGY of college students; NEGATIVISM
- Publication
Ege Academic Review, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 1, p61
- ISSN
1303-099X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21121/eab.2019148775