Creative and Critical Thinking Individual Assignment

1. BY: ZALIKA BINTI ZAINAL ABIDIN

2. SHOPAHOLIC

3. A is someone who
shops compulsively which means someone
who cannot stop themselves from shopping
(Kukar-Kinney, Ridgway, & Monroe, 2009)

4. is also known as :
Compulsive Buyer

5. STATISTIC OF

6. Gender
Male
9%
Female
91%

7. Based on the pie, it shows that 9 out
of 10 are women
(MacDonald, 2012).

8. REASON FOR BEING
SHOPAHOLIC

9. To Feel (Chivers, 2010)
It has been proved time and again
that when you buy something
new and fancy, it gives you a
temporary enhancement and you
feel much better for some time.
(Ridgway, Kukar- Kinney, and Monroe 2008)
When we shop, we experience good feeling like
shopping enjoyment :)

10. To overcome
The absence of feeling boredom or
anything that significant always
leads people to the shopping malls
and they end up purchasing stuff.
When we bored, we tend to buy things that we
already have.

11. For
You may be aware that window is an
entertainment that is indulged in by many people. However, it
also leads to them buying stuff that so many things becomes
difficult to resist.
Ooopppsss! End up purchasing items .

12. Peer
The need to be recognized in social
circles of their life and the need to
impress their friends is reason why
people keep buying stuff. Its also
related to the factor of low self-
esteem (Faber and O’Guinn 1992) where
they feel that they are not style
enough compared to others.

13. This happen to many people who let
their influence their
mind to end up buying a lot of
different stuff at the same time.
Shopping is able to manage
A shopaholic's frequent spending may come from
deeper personal issues.
their mood state (Lee, Mysyk 2003).

14. Steps To Stop A
SHOPAHOLIC

15. AVOID FROM FALLING FOR
Don’t Buy Just
Because It’s On
Sale.

16. Doing nothing often leads to
temptations that are hard to resist
like go to
KEEP YOURSELF
If you were NOT busy enough,
you will end up doing stuff that
you would not have expected.
Focus more on your career (Tong, 1998)

17. Swiping
Credit Card
Increasingly access of credit card
encourages to
spend more than they want.
Use cash
instead of
credit card.
Set a budget.
‘‘it certainly not feels like you’re
actually use your money if you
use credit cards’’ (Lee, Mysyk
2003)

18. Bring And Stick
To Them
A good solution
was to write down Shop with
a list of the things a list
(Chivers, 2010).
you want to buy.

19. Confession Of
SHOPAHOLIC

20. “Sometimes I window shop online to find
great deals. And also, I being at the
mall. I just really like being out and walking
around looking at stuff!”
“We are a !!!!
We shop when we were bored, we shop
when in need, and we even shop for fun!”

21. I am shopaholic. I love to get good deals. To
me the fun of is "finding"
a great deal. How else can I get the high of a
great deal?
“We need to go shopping several times a
week or we will feel an empty inside. We
can't stop buying girls things and many
things. We LOVE stuff”

22. CONCLUSION

23. like to buy something
for themselves to balance their
own needs but they also increase
their problems and they need a
suitable treatment.
We know that we are the
owner of our life. We
can make our life different if we do
our best to plan it in a right way.

24. "Fashions fade, style is eternal."
— Yves Saint-Laurent is eternal."
"Fashions fade, style
- Yves Saint-Laurent
“I always say shopping is
cheaper than a psychiatrist.”
-Tammy Faye Bakker
“Win or lose, we go shopping
after the election.”
- Imelda Marcos

25. REFERENCES

26. Kukar-Kinney, M., Ridgway, N. M., & Monroe, K. B. (2012). The Role of Price in the Behavior and
Purchase Decisions of Compulsive Buyer. Journal Of Retailing, 63-71.
Kukar-Kinney, M., Ridgway, N. M., & Monroe, K. R. (2009). The Relationship Between Consumers’
Tendencies to Buy Compulsively. Journal of Retailing, 298-307.
Lee, S., & Mysyk, A. (2004). The Medicalization of Compulsive Buying. Social Science & Medicine,
1709-1718.
Chivers, J. (2010, December 12). What is a Shopaholic. Retrieved July 25, 2012, from My Year Without
Clothes Shopping: http://myyearwithoutclothesshopping.com/mystory/what-is-a-shopaholic
MacDonald, J. (2012). You Might Be a Shopaholic If... Retrieved July 28, 2012, from Bankrate.com:
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/advice/20030314a1.asp
Tong, L. (1998, May 18). Why I'm Discarding My Shopaholic Way. New Straits Times.