Purpose Buying behavior has been significantly altered by technological developments as a result of the rise Internet. Online buying is also inextricably linked to electronic payment systems, such credit cards. This paper investigates how credit-card systems and online shopping increases compulsive female male consumers. Design/methodology/approach In current study, authors tested influence car...

The study aimed to investigate different factors of vulnerability for pathological buying in the online context and to determine whether online pathological buying has parallels to a specific Internet addiction. According to a model of specific Internet addiction by Brand and colleagues, potential vulnerability factors may consist of a predisposing excitability from shopping and as mediating va...

<p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p> This study aims to determine the effect of perception maslahah on compulsive buying behavior research is a quantitative by integrating dimensions into Theory Planned Behavior (TPB) model. TPB an integrated model that consists four predictors behavior, namely attitudes, subjective ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Exercise dependence (EXD) is considered a behavioral addiction that is often associated with eating disorders. To date, only few studies examined the potential overlap between EXD and other addictive behaviors. Therefore, the present study aimed at investigating the relationship of EXD with pathological buying, pathological video gaming (offline and online), hypersexual beha...

The appraisal of goal-related constructs, generally, and personal projects (PP) in particular, is one the most solid research paths with regard to subjective well-being health. In last few years, PP has been linked such problems as excessive alcohol marijuana use, but no study conducted field compulsive buying (CB). this study, using Little’s personal-projects-analysis (PPA) methodology, differ...