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The Relationship of Shopping-Related Decisions with Materialistic Values Endorsement, Compulsive Buying-Shopping Disorder Symptoms and Everyday Moral Decision Making

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  • Astrid Müller

    (Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany)

  • Ekaterini Georgiadou

    (Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Paracelsus Medical University Nuremberg, 90419 Nuremberg, Germany)

  • Annika Birlin

    (Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany)

  • Nora M. Laskowski

    (Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany
    Institute of Psychology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
    University Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Campus East-Westphalia, Ruhr-University Bochum, 32312 Luebbecke, Germany)

  • Susana Jiménez-Murcia

    (Ciber Fisiopatología Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
    Psychoneurobiology of Eating and Addictive Behaviors Group, Neurosciences Programme, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), 08908 Barcelona, Spain
    Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Bellvitge, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08907 Barcelona, Spain
    Psychiatry and Mental Health Group, Neuroscience Program, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge-IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08907 Barcelona, Spain)

  • Fernando Fernández-Aranda

    (Ciber Fisiopatología Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
    Psychoneurobiology of Eating and Addictive Behaviors Group, Neurosciences Programme, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), 08908 Barcelona, Spain
    Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Bellvitge, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08907 Barcelona, Spain
    Psychiatry and Mental Health Group, Neuroscience Program, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge-IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08907 Barcelona, Spain)

  • Thomas Hillemacher

    (Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Paracelsus Medical University Nuremberg, 90419 Nuremberg, Germany)

  • Martina de Zwaan

    (Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany)

  • Matthias Brand

    (General Psychology, Cognition and Center for Behavioral Addiction Research (CeBAR), University of Duisburg-Essen, 47057 Duisburg, Germany
    Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 45141 Essen, Germany)

  • Sabine Steins-Loeber

    (Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg, 96047 Bamberg, Germany)

Abstract

Background: Compulsive buying-shopping disorder (CBSD) is associated with high materialistic values endorsement and excessive purchasing of consumer goods. A subgroup of individuals with CBSD engage in socially unacceptable behaviors to continue shopping despite negative consequences. This investigation aimed at exploring possible links between ego-oriented shopping-related decisions, materialism, symptoms of CBSD and close-to-everyday moral decision making. Methods: In study 1, patients with CBSD were interviewed to develop a list of conflict situations, capturing typical shopping-related dilemmas. In study 2, the shopping-related dilemmas from study 1, standardized close-to-everyday moral dilemmas, the Material Values Scale and Pathological Buying Screener were administered to a web-based convenience sample ( n = 274). Results: The main effects of a moderated hierarchical regression analysis revealed an association of more ego-oriented shopping-related decisions with both higher materialistic values endorsement and more CBSD symptoms, but not with everyday moral decision-making. However, a more egoistic everyday moral decision making style moderated the effect of CBSD symptoms on ego-oriented shopping related decisions. Conclusions: The findings indicate that a more egoistic everyday moral decision making style is not directly linked to domain-specific shopping-related decision making but strengthens the link between symptoms of CBSD and ego-oriented shopping-related decisions.

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  • Astrid Müller & Ekaterini Georgiadou & Annika Birlin & Nora M. Laskowski & Susana Jiménez-Murcia & Fernando Fernández-Aranda & Thomas Hillemacher & Martina de Zwaan & Matthias Brand & Sabine Steins-Lo, 2022. "The Relationship of Shopping-Related Decisions with Materialistic Values Endorsement, Compulsive Buying-Shopping Disorder Symptoms and Everyday Moral Decision Making," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(7), pages 1-15, April.
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