Passion for online shopping: The influence of personality and compulsive buying

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 693-705

  Wang, Chih Chien ^a,b   Yang, Hui Wen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b National Taipei University ^*  (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Compulsive buying; Harmonious passion; Obsessive passion; Online shopping dependency

Indexed keywords

EID: 53149089837     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2008.36.5.693     Document Type: Article

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