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    Compulsive and compensative buying among online shoppers. An empirical study
    (2021) Adamczyk, Grzegorz
    The present study examines the phenomenon of compensative and compulsive buying among online shoppers. Firstly, the obtained empirical data make it possible to estimate the prevalence of compensative and compulsive buying among the general population of Poles aged 15 years old and over, with the sample split into users and non-users of the e-commerce market offer. Secondly, the conducted analysis shows to what extent the prevalence of compulsive and compensative buying is differentiated by the frequency of online shopping, by the extent of the expenditures on online shopping compared with offline shopping, by attitudes towards online shopping, and by sociodemographic conditions (gender, age, monthly net income of household). The findings come from a survey conducted in 2019 based on a nationwide statistically representative sample of 1,000 Poles aged 15 years old and over. Drawing on this survey based on the German Compulsive Buying Indicator (GCBI), the prevalence of compulsive buying is observed at about 3% and compensative buying at about 12%. Dividing the general population into online and offline shoppers, one can see serious differences between both target groups; the share of compulsive and compensative buyers in the segment of online shoppers amounts to 3.6% and 16.9%, while among non-online shoppers – 3.3% and 10.1%. The strongest susceptibility to compulsive buying is characteristic of female online shoppers having very positive attitudes towards online shopping and doing online shopping very frequently.
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    Correlates of Moral Orientations in Contemporary Societies. Case of Poland
    (2025) Adamczyk, Grzegorz; Szczygielski, Dominik
    Usually, people use different sets of rules that organize their moral behaviour. Social scientists introduced several concepts of moral orientations supporting a better understanding of the underpinnings of moral behaviour, which are the dignity-related, prosocial, reciprocal, and egoistic moral orientations. The study presents the sociological quantitative analysis of prevalence of the moral orientations in Polish society based on a survey carried out in Poland at the end of 2023 on the statistically representative sample of 1,082 adults married or in an informal partnership. Various socio-cultural predictors such as self-identification with religious faith, self-esteem, materialism, and classic demographic features (age, gender) were tested as predictors of the moral orientations. Comparing our findings to the latest available results thought-provoking regularities are discovered – individual features like self-esteem, materialism and religiosity are stronger predictors in the case of the dignity-related and prosocial moral orientations. The full array of tested factors is visible particularly in the case of reciprocal moral orientation, followed by the egoistic one. The article attempts on suggesting a further discussion on the possible future scenarios of morality in modern societies.
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    Pathological Buying on the Rise? Databases 2010, 2019, 2022
    (2022-12-30) Adamczyk, Grzegorz
    The study concerns the development of compensative and compulsive buying in Poland comparing the results of three waves of a cross-sectional study conducted before and at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Six predictors of susceptibility to compensative and compulsive buying are in the focus: materialism, self-esteem, gender, age, frequency of online shopping, and experience of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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    Theodicy perspective as an effect of the interpenetration of mental and religious issues during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
    (2023-12-28) Adamczyk, Grzegorz; Jabłoński, Arkadiusz; Nowakowski, Piotr T.; Ptaszek, Robert T.
    The authors of the article wanted to answer the question regarding to what extent the different types of experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic, understood as codes from the medical subsystem, differentiate the level of intensity of religious attitudes of Poles. For this purpose, the validity of the hypothesis derived from Niklas Luhmann’s theory was verified. According to this theory, the interpenetration of mental and religious systems in times of a pandemic causes the emergence of meanings that reorder communication with other social systems. The obtained research results indicate that the COVID-19 experience is such a dominant variable in determining religious behaviour that demographic variables in pandemic conditions turn out to be statistically insignificant. The interpenetration of mental and social systems goes beyond these differences, since it concerns the basics of communication and confronting the existing ways of encoding events with the environment that introduces serious disturbances in the flow of information.