Shame-Proneness as a Risk Factor of Compulsive Buying

摘要: Although compulsive buying is understood as an attempt to deal with chronic negative affect, the role of self-conscious emotions has not been explicitly theorized nor empirically examined. One objective this manuscript was fill gap by integrating escape theory account psychological literature on emotions. Specifically, shame-proneness posited be important risk factor severity. Another study examine use avoidant coping strategies following lapses and relate them dispositional it hypothesized that would positively influenced shame-proneness, effect partially mediated buying. These hypotheses received strong support from two studies, in which assessed different self-report instruments.