Pathological Buying on the Rise? Databases 2010, 2019, 2022

Abstract

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.