The Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale: reliability and validity of a brief screening test

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Andreassen, Cecilie S ^a,b   Griffiths, Mark D ^c   Pallesen, Ståle ^a,d   Bilder, Robert M ^e   Torsheim, Torbjørn ^a   Aboujaoude, Elias ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Bergen Clinics Foundation   (Norway)

^c NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Norwegian Competence Center for Sleep Disorders   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

assessment; compulsive buying; personality; psychological distress; psychometrics; scale; self esteem; shopping addiction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996445337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01374     Document Type: Article

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