BACKGROUND Compulsive buying has become a serious problem affecting a growing number of people in contemporary consumer societies. Nevertheless, research examining its prevalence in representative samples from the general population is still scarce and mainly focused on the exploration of sociodemographic factors, neglecting other aspects like psychological distress and coping styles. Therefore...

This study investigates the demand side of the piracy problem of music CDs in Malaysia. The findings demonstrate the applicability of the modified Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) in predicting buying attitude towards pirated CDs though social influences and consumers' personality characteristics. Results show that normative susceptibility, integrity, gender and personal income were significant ...

This note shows how to formalize a small set of general facts about buying and selling. We begin with summarizing properties of buying/selling informally in English, and give examples of consequences of these assumptions. Then we formalize our assumptions in action language C+ with additive fluents and actions and test the adequacy of the proposed formalization using the Causal Calculator.

— Nowadays e-commerce websites offer users such a huge amount of products, which far from facilitating the buying process, actually make it more difficult. Hence, recommenders, which learn from users' preferences, are consolidating as valuable instruments to enhance the buying process in the 2D on several usability criteria such as learnability, perceived efficiency and effectiveness. Results d...

the nine participants presented a current depression, and two of them met criteria for bipolar disorder, but their loss of control over shopping was not better explained by their mood disorders, since shopping bouts also occurred during periods of euthymia. Participants answered the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale-Shopping Version (YBOCS-SV)5, at the beginning and at the end of treatment....

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BACKGROUND Buying behaviours of food-allergic consumers can affect the risk they incur. An online survey was undertaken to understand the characteristics and buying behaviours of food-allergic consumers in Great Britain (GB) and people buying food for them. METHODS Descriptive study of food-allergic individuals in GB and their buying behaviours, based on a survey of 500 food-allergic consumer...

With the rapidly development of e-commerce, online shopping becomes very popular among Chinese customers. In the past few years, online group-buying has experienced big rise and fall, thus, how to retain customers and improve customer loyalty should be considered by the practitioners. This study aims to explore potential factors which contribute to customer loyalty in the online group-buying co...

Present study aims at identifying the factors affecting buying decisions of rural consumers and whether importance of these factors varies with age and income of respondents. Study identified the eight factors i.e. price, quality, warranty, advertisement, brand, friends recommendations, family members recommendation and packaging which rural consumers consider while making purchase decisions. I...