Passion for online shopping: The influence of personality and compulsive buying

By Chih-Chien Wang, Hui-Wen Yang. 2008

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In this study the relationships among personality traits, harmonious passion, obsessive passion, compulsive buying behavior, and online shopping dependency are examined. An empirical survey of 403 student respondents from a Taiwanese university was conducted. Results show that both harmonious passion and obsessive passion can lead to online shopping dependency; passion is related to compulsive buying behavior; compulsive buyers are more online-shopping-dependent than other consumers. It was also found that three personality traits - openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness - can lead individuals to develop a passion for online shopping activities. These findings may be useful for discussing the influence of personality traits on online shopping activities.

Subfields: Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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• A social mindfulness approach to understanding experienced customer mistreatment: A within-person field experiment (2017, background): “Previous studies on maladaptive shopping have either focused on individual differences as antecedents (e.g., Bosnjak, Galesic, & Tuten, 2007; Wang & Yang, 2008) or examined maladaptive shopping as a consequence of traumatic stress (e.g., Mandel & Smeesters, 2008; Somer & Ruvio, 2014).”