Understanding compulsive buying tendencies among young Australians: The roles of money attitude and credit card usage

Marketing Intelligence and Planning

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 441-458

  Phau, Ian ^a   Woo, Charise ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Buying behaviour; Credit cards; Young adults

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849112291     PISSN: 02634503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02634500810894307     Document Type: Article

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