Materialism and addictive buying in women: The mediating role of anxiety and depression

Psychological Reports

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1342-1358

  Otero López, José Manuel ^a   Villardefrancos, Estíbaliz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886800321     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/18.02.PR0.113x11z9     Document Type: Article

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