A critique and comparison of two scales from fifteen years of studying compulsive buying

Psychological Reports

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 153-165

  Manolis, Chris ^a   Roberts, James A ^b,c   Kashyap, Vishal ^a  

^a XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPULSION; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

COMMERCE; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 42349106212     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.102.1.153-165     Document Type: Article

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