3.2 Defenition of Shopping Addiction
For behavior adaptive shopping is namely for shopping Addiction or compulssive buying. In thesie Hamanda explain the term for somebody
experience shopping addiction is a shopaholic. The definition of compulssive buying is the cronic shopping , repeatedly and become a priority respons in athe
negative situation and the negative feeling O guinn and Faber, 1992 in Edwards, 1993: 67.
According Karen O Connor 2003 with shoping a shopaholic can not anticipation a reward like a gambler, but a thingking and idea when they shoping,
they have an objective and wants to be happy and optimist.
The person whos be a shopaholic have a contented with shopping that give a life and make her to forget her sadness. The shopping addiction it is same with the
other behavior like drugs, and make a biochemical change in individual that give a happinest in herself, something that she want, would be make feel a happinest
and make dessapear a sadness and broken heart.
3.3 Criteria characteristic from Shopping Addiction
There are several characteristics that shoping addiction shares with other addiction. As with other addictions, shoping addicts become preoccupied with
spending, and devote significant time and money to the activity. Actual spending is important to the process of shopping addiction; window shoping does not
constitute an addiction, and the addictive pattern is actually driven by the process of spending money.
The study an analysis explain a compulsive buyer usually having a low confident, and have high an imagination, high depression, high worried and high
obsession Scherhorn dkk, 1990 dalam Edward, 1993.
3.4 The Types of Shopping Addiction
Many shopping addicts dont realize their addiction because they dont spend excessive time and money at the mall. Shopping and spending addictions fall far
outside of the boundaries of mall purchases, and the compulsion to spend affects everyone differently. There may well be more than six types, but this list serves as
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a good starting point for identifying how a shopping addiction may manifest itself. In all of the types youll find one constant: people spending money in the
mistaken belief that their new items will fill a void within them.
1. Image shoppers: People who do things such as picking up the tab, buying expensive cars, and other highly visible displays of apparent wealth.
2. Bargain shoppers: Buying stuff because its a good price, regardless of whether or not it will be used.
3. Codependent shoppers: People who make purchases in order to win the love an approval of others, either by way of gifts or by demonstrating
affiliation with a given group or social status. 4. Trend shoppers: People who impulsively buy trendy items such as the
latest phones or clothing in order to demonstrate their belonging to a peer group.
5. Bulimic shoppers: People who shop and then purge by bringing things back in a surge of guilt. Financially this is better than building up debt, but
psychologically this is a destructive behavior. 6. Collector Shoppers: People who buy in order to complete or add to a
collection. Again, the purchases often are made in secret and cause intense feelings of guilt or anguish.
Compulsive shoppers have some other patterns as well as what they buy. Two separate studies of addictive shoppers polled their subjects to find the items they
bought compulsively. These are the items that were most-commonly bought on compulsive shopping binges, in the order of purchase frequency.
1. Clothing 2. Shoes
3. Jewelry 4. Makeup
5. Collectibles 6. Antiques
7. CDsMP3s 8. Art
9. CarsAuto Parts 10. Electronics
11. Housewares 12. Books
13. Food
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3.5 Factors Causes Shopping Addiction
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