Abstract

SOTO VALENZUELA, Paulina; DENEGRI CORIA, Marianela  and  PEREZ SANCHEZ, Beatriz. Compulsive buying: Bibliometric review of scientific productivity from 1985 to 2020. Psicol. caribe [online]. 2023, vol.40, n.1, pp.28-60.  Epub Oct 06, 2023. ISSN 0123-417X.

In the consumer society, desires are transformed into needs and this affects the emergence of compulsive buying and its negative effects on a personal and social level. For this reason, an analysis and synthesis effort is required on the existing scientific knowledge, which improves the understanding of the area. The objective is to analyze the development of scientific production on compulsive buying. The inclusion criteria were: individual empirical articles and reviews, covering up to the year 2020 and without language bias. The databases Web of Science, Scopus and PsycINFO were used. Through a bibliometric analysis -with PRISMA criteria- and using the EndNote X9 reference manager, 971 publications were located. The results indicate: an increase in productivity since 2005; English is the prevailing language of the publications; USA is the country with the highest productivity; the most frequent keyword is compulsive buying. Three main research teams on the phenomenon were identified and a content analysis of their publications was made. A report of the most cited articles of the databases was made. It is concluded that there is little investigative precision on compulsive buying despite the increase in annual productivity.

Keywords : compulsive buying; pathological buying; bibliometry.

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