Compulsive Buying Behavior and Its Relationship to Perceived Social Status Associated with Buying, Materialism, Self‐Esteem, and Apparel‐Product Involvement

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Abstract
Compulsive buyers are individuals who experience and routinely act on powerful, uncontrollable urges to purchase. The relationships that existed between compulsive buying behavior and perceived social status associated with buying, materialism, self‐esteem, and apparel‐product involvement for adults between the ages of 18 and 24 were investigated. This age range was selected because it is the average onset age of compulsive buying behavior. A convenience sample of 305 undergraduates completed a questionnaire that contained measures of compulsive buying, perceived social status associated with buying, materialism, self‐esteem, and apparel‐product involvement. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to analyze the data. The full regression model and the regression coefficients for all four of the predictor variables were statistically significant. The compulsive buying behavior of participants was negatively related to self‐esteem and positively related to perceived social status associated with buying, materialism, and apparel‐product involvement.