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Chronic consumer states influencing compulsive consumption

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posted on 2024-11-13, 22:47 authored by Lif Miriam Hamouda, Prakash Vel
Consumer behaviour analysis represents an important field of study in marketing. Particularly strategy development for marketing and communications will be more focused and effective when marketers have an understanding of the motivations, behaviour and psychology of consumers. While materialism has been found to be one of the important elements in consumer behaviour, compulsive consumption represents another aspect that has recently attracted more attention. This is because of the growing prevalence of dysfunctional buying that has raised concern in consumer societies. Present studies and analyses on origins and motivations of compulsive buying have mainly focused on either individual factors or groups of related factors and hence a need for a holistic view exists. This paper provides a comprehensive perspective on compulsive consumption and establishes relevant propositions keeping the family life cycle stages as a reference for the incidence of chronic consumer states and their influence on compulsive consumption. Keywords—Chronic consumer states, complusive consumption, family life cycle

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Vel, P. K. & Hamouda, L. Miriam . 2009, 'Chronic consumer states influencing compulsive consumption', World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology,

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English

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30157

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