Does compulsive buying differ between male and female students?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1309-1312

  Mueller, Astrid ^a   Claes, Laurence ^b   Mitchell, James E ^c   Faber, Ronald J ^d   Fischer, Julia ^a   De Zwaan, Martina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Southeast Campus   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

BIS BAS; Compulsive buying; Depression; Effortful control; Materialism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953161234     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.02.026     Document Type: Article

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