Sadness, identity, and plastic in over-shopping: The interplay of materialism, poor credit management, and emotional buying motives in predicting compulsive buying

A comprehensive study is currently lacking to explain why material values strongly influence compulsive buying. The goal of the current study is to test if money management, buying motivations for improving mood and identity, and self-transformation expectations mediate the link from material values to compulsive buying. In one sample (N = 1077) we find, as expected, that materialism correlates positively with compulsive buying and that a lack...