A Typology of Buyers Grounded in Psychological Risk Factors for Compulsive Buying (Impulsivity, Self-Esteem, and Buying Motives): Latent Class Analysis Approach ina Community Sample
A Typology of Buyers Grounded in Psychological Risk Factors for Compulsive Buying (Impulsivity, Self-Esteem, and Buying Motives): Latent Class Analysis Approach ina Community Sample
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10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00277
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发表时间：
2020-04-21
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4.7
通讯作者：
Chauchard, Emeline
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作者：
Challet-Bouju, Gaelle;Mariez, Julie;Chauchard, Emeline
我们的目标是根据强迫性购买的心理风险因素确定有意义的购买者亚群。242名成年女性的社区样本完成了一项在线调查，探讨了购买习惯和动机、冲动、自尊和强迫性购买的严重程度。进行潜在类聚类分析。一个没有问题的群体（28%）的特点是低水平的冲动和购买动机。中间集群（51%）的特点是具有较高水平的积极和消极强化相关的购买动机。这两个集群的特征都是强迫性购买的频率较低（分别为2%和8%），但中间集群的强迫性购买的严重程度更高。第三类（21%）的特点是强迫性购买的频率更高（43%），强迫性购买的严重程度更高，失去控制的感觉更强烈，以及更高水平的消极紧迫性和应对动机。这些结果与成瘾的人-情感-认知-执行（I-PACE）模型和药物成瘾的负强化模型有相似之处，这两个模型都假设消极情绪在成瘾的激发和维持中起着核心作用。这些结果也反映了问题赌徒和问题电子游戏用户的其他类型。这些心理特征与其他成瘾行为的相似之处，以及与常见症状和临床表现的相似之处，是将强迫性购买概念化为成瘾障碍的补充论据。
Our objective was to identify meaningful subgroups of buyers based on psychological risk factors for compulsive buying. A community sample of 242 adult women fulfilled an online survey exploring buying habits and motives, impulsivity, self-esteem, and severity of compulsive buying. A latent class cluster analysis was performed. A nonproblematic cluster (28%) was characterized by low levels of impulsivity and buying motives. An intermediary cluster (51%) was characterized by higher levels of positive and negative reinforcement-related buying motives. Both clusters were characterized by a low frequency of compulsive buying (2 and 8%, respectively), but the severity of compulsive buying was higher for the intermediary cluster. A third cluster (21%) was characterized by a higher frequency of compulsive buying (43%), a higher severity of compulsive buying, a stronger feeling of losing control, and higher levels of negative urgency and coping motive. These results present similarities with the Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model of addiction and the negative reinforcement model of drug addiction, which both postulate that negative feelings play a central role in motivating and maintaining addiction. These results also echo other typologies performed in problem gamblers and problematic videogame users. These similarities of psychological profiles with other addictive behaviors, and with common symptoms and clinical expressions, are supplementary arguments to consider conceptualizing compulsive buying as an addictive disorder.