51. Compulsive Buying Behavior : Clinical Comparison with Other Behavioral Addictions
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Marta Baño, Trevor Steward, Salomé Tárrega, Núria Mallorquí-Bagué, Neus Aymamí, Roser Granero, Fernando Fernández-Aranda, Susana Jiménez-Murcia, Mónica Gómez-Peña, Laura Moragas, Amparo del Pino-Gutiérrez, Gemma Mestre-Bach, José M. Menchón, and Universitat de Barcelona
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compulsive buying behavior ,Sexual addiction ,Behavioral addiction ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Internet addiction ,media_common.quotation_subject ,internet gaming disorder ,Behavioral assessment ,Compulsive buying behavior ,Gambling disorder ,03 medical and health sciences ,Internet gaming disorder ,0302 clinical medicine ,Compra compulsiva ,Sex addiction ,sex addiction ,medicine ,Addictes ,Psychology ,Compulsive gambling ,Jocs d'atzar ,Addicció al sexe ,Anàlisi de conducta ,Psychiatry ,General Psychology ,Original Research ,media_common ,Addiction ,Behavioral addictions ,gambling disorder ,Novelty seeking ,behavioral addictions ,Joc compulsiu ,medicine.disease ,Compulsive shopping ,internet addiction ,030227 psychiatry ,Addicts ,Reward dependence ,Gambling ,Harm avoidance ,Addicció a Internet ,medicine.symptom ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Psychopathology ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Compulsive buying behavior (CBB) has been recognized as a prevalent mental health disorder, yet its categorization into classification systems remains unsettled. The objective of this study was to assess the sociodemographic and clinic variables related to the CBB phenotype compared to other behavioral addictions. Three thousand three hundred and twenty four treatment-seeking patients were classified in five groups: CBB, sexual addiction, Internet gaming disorder, Internet addiction, and gambling disorder. CBB was characterized by a higher proportion of women, higher levels of psychopathology, and higher levels in the personality traits of novelty seeking, harm avoidance, reward dependence, persistence, and cooperativeness compared to other behavioral addictions. Results outline the heterogeneity in the clinical profiles of patients diagnosed with different behavioral addiction subtypes and shed new light on the primary mechanisms of CBB.
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- 2016