Exploring Compulsive Buying: A Multidisciplinary Approach
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 11709
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The need felt and shared by both theoreticians and researchers to further the understanding of compulsive buying—given its noticeable increase in the last few decades and the important personal, social, labor and economic costs it entails—is the raison d’être of this Special Issue. The review of the state of the art reveals a complex phenomenon with multiple dimensions and a marked multicausal nature which, therefore, demands integrative approaches that allow for a variety of perspectives. We should seek a broadness of vision that makes it possible to overcome disciplinary “turfs” by encouraging the healthy and welcome integration of ideas, concepts, research methods and strategies from different areas of work (psychology, medicine, sociology, business/marketing, neuroscience, pharmacology, anthropology, among others). From this multidisciplinary scenario, the identification of explanatory variables, as well as of other aspects (boundaries, epicenters and trajectories of the phenomenon, to mention but a few), would result in not only a better understanding of compulsive buying, but also the identification of targets that must be the focal aim of effective prevention and intervention programs.
Prof. Dr. José Manuel Otero-López
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- compulsive buying
- personal variables
- social and contextual variables
- risk factors
- epidemiology
- cultural aspects
- prevention
- treatment
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