Correspondence: Compulsive buying - A culture bound disorder?

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 189-190

  Babbar, Jatinder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPULSION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; INCOME; LETTER; PHENOMENOLOGY; SHOPPING; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY;

BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; POVERTY; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SYNDROME;

EID: 33847781831     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764007076908     Document Type: Letter

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