Pathological Buying Online as a Specific Form of Internet Addiction: A Model-Based Experimental Investigation.

The study aimed to investigate different factors of vulnerability for pathological buying in the online context and to determine whether online pathological buying has parallels to a specific Internet addiction. According to a model of specific Internet addiction by Brand and colleagues, potential v...

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Main Authors: Patrick Trotzke, Katrin Starcke, Astrid Müller, Matthias Brand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140296