Gender Differences in Pathways to Compulsive Buying in Chinese College Students in Hong Kong and Macau
| Autor: | Anise Wu, Catherine So-kum Tang, Elsie Yan, Terence H. W. Ching |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male Adolescent Universities Full-Length Report Medicine (miscellaneous) Severity of Illness Index Structural equation modeling Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Cognition 0302 clinical medicine Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans compulsive buying shopping addiction mediation Young adult Students Sex Characteristics Macau Avoidance coping General Medicine Cognitive bias 030227 psychiatry Affect Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Mood mood compensation gender differences Compulsive behavior Compulsive Behavior irrational cognitions Hong Kong Female medicine.symptom Psychology Stress Psychological 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Sex characteristics Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Behavioral Addictions |
| ISSN: | 2063-5303 2062-5871 |
| DOI: | 10.1556/2006.5.2016.025 |
| Popis: | Background and aims The addictive nature of compulsive buying implies that mood disturbances, stress, and cognitive biases that underlie compulsive buying might operate in ways similar in both genders. In the current study, we aimed to test hypothetical pathways of mood compensation and irrational cognitions, which may explain compulsive buying tendencies. We also examined potential gender differences in these pathways. Methods Two-hundred and thirty-two male (age: M = 20.30, SD = 1.74) and 373 female Chinese college students (age: M = 19.97, SD = 1.74) in Hong Kong and Macau completed measures assessing compulsive buying, psychological distress, avoidance coping, materialism, and buying-related cognitions. Mediation analyses via a structural equation modeling approach explained by Cheung (2007, 2009) were conducted, with gender as a grouping variable. Results There was a gender difference in the mood compensation pathway; avoidance coping partially mediated the link between psychological distress and compulsive buying severity in females only. On the other hand, the irrational cognitive pathway, in which irrational buying-related cognitions fully mediated the link between materialism and compulsive buying severity, was supported for both genders. There was no gender difference in the extent of mediation within the irrational cognitive pathway, and the mediation effect within the irrational cognitive pathway was larger than that within the mood compensation pathway for both genders. Conclusions Mood compensation processes in compulsive buying might be female specific, and secondary to irrational cognitions, which were gender invariant. Gender-dependent mechanisms and irrational cognitions should be emphasized in compulsive buying treatment. |
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