Online shopping in treatment-seeking patients with buying-shopping disorder
Background and aims: With e-commerce becoming an important shopping activity, it has been argued that traditional buying-shopping disorder (BSD) migrates to the online retail market resulting in BSD predominantly online. The aims of the current study were to investigate how many patients with BSD re...
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| author | Astrid Müller Sabine Steins-Loeber Patrick Trotzke Birte Vogel Ekaterini Georgiadou Martina de Zwaan |
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| description | Background and aims: With e-commerce becoming an important shopping activity, it has been argued that traditional buying-shopping disorder (BSD) migrates to the online retail market resulting in BSD predominantly online. The aims of the current study were to investigate how many patients with BSD report symptoms of online BSD, and to determine whether symptoms of probable online BSD are related to sociodemographic variables, anxiety, depression, and a higher severity of general BSD. Method: A post hoc analysis of pooled data collected within previous studies (n = 122 treatment-seeking patients with BSD; age Mdn = 42.50, range 20–68 years; 76% women) was conducted. Assessment included the short version of the Internet Addiction Test modified for online shopping sites (s-IATshop), the Pathological Buying Screener (PBS) as an instrument assessing BSD in general, regardless of the buying or shopping environment, and measures for anxiety and depression. Results: 33.6% of the sample met the s-IAT threshold for probable online BSD. Higher s-IAT scores were related to lower age and to a higher severity of anxiety, depression and general BSD. A hierarchical regression analysis with general BSD (PBS score) as dependent variable and partnership status, symptoms of anxiety, depression and online BSD (s-IAT-shop) as predictors indicated a significant positive association of probable online BSD with the severity of general BSD above and beyond anxiety and depression. Conclusion: The findings may encourage future studies addressing phenomenological characteristics, underlying features, associated comorbidity, and clinical relevance of online BSD. Keywords: Compulsive buying-shopping disorder, Online buying-shopping disorder, Pathological buying, Buying addiction, Internet-use disorder |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e80b9da7e4b14784942fdbcfd2d4f1c72022-12-21T18:57:52ZengElsevierComprehensive Psychiatry0010-440X2019-10-0194Online shopping in treatment-seeking patients with buying-shopping disorderAstrid Müller0Sabine Steins-Loeber1Patrick Trotzke2Birte Vogel3Ekaterini Georgiadou4Martina de Zwaan5Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover 30625, Germany; Corresponding author.Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg, Markusplatz 3, Bamberg 96047, GermanyDepartment of General Psychology: Cognition & Center for Behavioral Addiction Research (CeBAR), University of Duisburg-Essen, Forsthausweg 2, 47048 Duisburg, Duisburg, GermanyDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover 30625, GermanyDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Paracelsus Medical University Nuremberg, Prof.-Ernst-Nathan-Str. 1, 90419 Nuremberg, GermanyDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover 30625, GermanyBackground and aims: With e-commerce becoming an important shopping activity, it has been argued that traditional buying-shopping disorder (BSD) migrates to the online retail market resulting in BSD predominantly online. The aims of the current study were to investigate how many patients with BSD report symptoms of online BSD, and to determine whether symptoms of probable online BSD are related to sociodemographic variables, anxiety, depression, and a higher severity of general BSD. Method: A post hoc analysis of pooled data collected within previous studies (n = 122 treatment-seeking patients with BSD; age Mdn = 42.50, range 20–68 years; 76% women) was conducted. Assessment included the short version of the Internet Addiction Test modified for online shopping sites (s-IATshop), the Pathological Buying Screener (PBS) as an instrument assessing BSD in general, regardless of the buying or shopping environment, and measures for anxiety and depression. Results: 33.6% of the sample met the s-IAT threshold for probable online BSD. Higher s-IAT scores were related to lower age and to a higher severity of anxiety, depression and general BSD. A hierarchical regression analysis with general BSD (PBS score) as dependent variable and partnership status, symptoms of anxiety, depression and online BSD (s-IAT-shop) as predictors indicated a significant positive association of probable online BSD with the severity of general BSD above and beyond anxiety and depression. Conclusion: The findings may encourage future studies addressing phenomenological characteristics, underlying features, associated comorbidity, and clinical relevance of online BSD. Keywords: Compulsive buying-shopping disorder, Online buying-shopping disorder, Pathological buying, Buying addiction, Internet-use disorderhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010440X19300434 |
| spellingShingle | Astrid Müller Sabine Steins-Loeber Patrick Trotzke Birte Vogel Ekaterini Georgiadou Martina de Zwaan Online shopping in treatment-seeking patients with buying-shopping disorder Comprehensive Psychiatry |
| title | Online shopping in treatment-seeking patients with buying-shopping disorder |
| title_full | Online shopping in treatment-seeking patients with buying-shopping disorder |
| title_fullStr | Online shopping in treatment-seeking patients with buying-shopping disorder |
| title_full_unstemmed | Online shopping in treatment-seeking patients with buying-shopping disorder |
| title_short | Online shopping in treatment-seeking patients with buying-shopping disorder |
| title_sort | online shopping in treatment seeking patients with buying shopping disorder |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010440X19300434 |
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