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Shopping addiction is characterized by an eagerness to purchase unnecessary or superfluous things and a lack of impulse control when it comes to shopping. It is a concept similar to compulsive buying disorder (oniomania), but usually has a more psychosocial perspective, [1] or is viewed as a drug-free addiction like addiction to gambling, Internet, or video games. [2]
Compulsive buying-shopping disorder is classified by the ICD-11 among "other specified impulse control disorders". [5] Several authors have considered compulsive shopping rather as a variety of dependence disorder. [ 6 ]
Experts share how to get control of shopping. But what happens when that one thing is never enough? Shopping feels like an addiction around the holidays for a reason.
Retail therapy thus exists on a spectrum with shopping addiction (compulsive buying disorder). In 2001, the European Union conducted a study finding that 33% of shoppers surveyed had "high level of addiction to rash or unnecessary consumption". [2] This habit was causing debt problems for many.
It’s why the thriving second-hand fashion market which has rocketed in popularity over the last decade simply isn’t the silver bullet that’s going to make our shopping addiction sustainable ...
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The Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale (BSAS) consists of 28 statements. The participant is asked to rate how strongly each of the statements relates to their thoughts and behavior in the last 12 months. Each item is rated on a five-point continuum of agreement: completely disagree, disagree, neither disagree nor agree, agree, completely agree.
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