The interviews addressed buying attitudes

OBJECTIVE coercive acquire (uncontrolled urges to buy, with resulting significant adverse consequences) has been forecastd to view from 1. 8% to 16% of the adult U. S. population. To the authors knowledge, no speculate has used a colossal general population sample to estimate its prevalence. METHOD The authors conducted a random sample, circumscribe household telephone survey in the spring and summer of 2004 and interviewed 2,513 adults.The interviews addressed buying attitudes and miens, their consequences, and the respondents financial and demographic data. The authors used a clinically validated screening instrument, the despotic Buying Scale, to classify respondents as either unconditional buyers or not. RESULTS The place of solution was 56. 3%, which compares favorably with rates in federal national health surveys. The cooperation rate was 97. 6%. Respondents included a high percentage of women and people ages 55 and sure-enough(a) than the U.S. adult population. The estimated point prevalence of compulsive buying among respondents was 5. 8% (by gender 6. 0% for women, 5. 5% for men). The gender-adjusted prevalence rate was 5. 8%. Compared with other respondents, compulsive buyers were younger, and a greater proportion reported incomes under $50,000. They exhibited more than maladaptive responses on most consumer behavior measures and were more than four times slight likely to pay off conviction card balances in full.CONCLUSIONSA study using clinically valid interviews is unavoidable to evaluate these results. The emotional and functional bell of compulsive buying and the frequency of comorbid psychiatric disorders suggest that studies of treatments and social interventions are warranted root American Journal of Psychiatry http//ajp. psychiatryonline. org/cgi/content/abstract/163/10/1806