ArticleThe International journal of eating disorders2002
The relationship between compulsive buying and eating disorders.
Article in The International journal of eating disorders, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Interconnected desires: A systematic review of compulsive buying-shopping disorder and its links to disordered eating and body image by gender.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Pooled it
- Prevalence of the addictions: a problem of the majority or the minority?Evaluation & the health professions · 2011Pooled it
- Co-occurrence between eating disorder symptoms and addictive behaviors among adult women: a controlled analysis.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Psychotherapy research for compulsive buying-shopping disorder: Quo vadis?Addictive behaviors reports · 2025Article
- The Roles of Anxiety and Self-Esteem in the Risk of Eating Disorders and Compulsive Buying Behavior.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Compulsive buying and quality of life: An estimate of the monetary cost of compulsive buying among adults in early midlife.Psychiatry research · 2017Article
- Prevalence and co-occurrence of compulsive buying, problematic Internet and mobile phone use in college students in Yantai, China: relevance of self-traits.BMC public health · 2016Article
- Impulsive Behaviors in Patients With Pathological Buying.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2016Article
- Compulsive buying: Earlier illicit drug use, impulse buying, depression, and adult ADHD symptoms.Psychiatry research · 2015Article
- Associations between compulsive buying and substance dependence/abuse, major depressive episodes, and generalized anxiety disorder among men and women.Journal of addictive diseasesArticle
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Abstract
objectiveCompulsive buying has received increased research attention in the last decade. The disorder has high rates of comorbidity for other disorders, including eating disorders. This study explored the possible relationship between compulsive buying and eating disorders.
methodTwenty women who scored in the pathological range on a measure of compulsive buying and 20 controls were recruited via the media. Various measures of psychopathology and eating disorder symptoms were administered to both groups.
resultCompulsive buyers were significantly more likely to have a higher lifetime history of substance abuse or dependence. No differences existed between normal controls and compulsive buyers in prevalence of current or lifetime eating disorders, nor were there differences in scores of eating-related psychopathology. DISCUSSION: This work failed to demonstrate an increased risk for eating disorder in compulsive buyers, although a higher rate of substance dependence or abuse and higher scores on pathological personality dimension scales were seen.
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