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Compulsive Shopping, 2004.
An examination of this disorder and a look at available treatments.
991 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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Millions of Americans suffer from the negative behavior of compulsive shopping. This paper discusses that, whether it is a learned behavior from their family, socially imposed, or an emotional void filler, the drive to overspend is a problem that can lead to financial and personal disaster. It explains that with treatment, sufferers of this affliction have hope of overcoming the disorder.
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"Oniomania, in its simplest definition, is an obsession with purchasing items. Those suffering from compulsive shopping find themselves purchasing items they don?t need. They often purchase multiples of an item. Deborah Rodriguez, a confirmed compulsive shopper, related coming ?home with six packages of clothespins even though she didn?t own a clothesline.? (Chaker, 2003) Acknowledging this pattern of behavior as a problem is step one in finding a cure; uncovering the causes of the behavior is the next step."
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Online Shopping vs. Traditional Shopping., 2003.
A compare and contrast paper on these two kinds of shopping.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper compares and contrasts online shopping with traditional shopping. The paper discusses the similarities and contrasts the difference of each type of shopping. It contends that in spite of its advantages, online shopping has still drawbacks in terms of accessibility, security issue and look-and-feel feature of shopping and that is why online shopping falls behind traditional market systems.
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"Watson defines online shopping as the use of computer technology to purchase products from retailers and/or stores ..."
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Compulsive Spending Disorder, 2007.
This paper discusses compulsive spending disorder as part of bi-polar disorder, an addiction and a distraction.
3,765 words (approx. 15.1 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 103.95
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This paper explains that compulsive spenders have the compulsion and drive to spend, unique feelings about shopping, a tendency to spend, experienced dysfunctional spending and post-purchase guilt. The author points out that, when the comparison shopper feels 'the thrill of the hunt and the glory in the kill' of finding a lower price for something that has high value to others, there is a danger that a compulsive bargain hunter can become addicted to this activity. The paper concludes that, although compulsive spending is beginning to be accepted as a defined psychological illness, there is little help for the person with this behavior other than a strong desire to seek counseling or self-treatment.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Who Is the Compulsive Spender?
Profile
Age
Personality
Gender
Compulsive Spending Behavior as Part of Pathological Illness
Bipolar Disorder
How Bipolar Disorder Affects Lives
Treatment
Compulsive Spending Behavior as an Addiction
The Effect of Addiction
Shopping and Window Shopping as a Distraction
Effects of Addiction
The Act of Shopping
The Owning of Objects
Bargain Hunting
Binge Shopping
Codependent Spending
Bulimic Spending
Compulsive Spending As a Symptom
The Financial Aspect of Compulsive Spending
Financial Recognition of Compulsive Spending
Types and Treatments
Denial as an Aspect of Addiction
Treatments for Compulsive Spending Behavior
Professional Counseling
Self-Help
Discipline
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"When a person is insecure about their self-image, they may seek to enhance or extend their self-image in their own and others' eyes. In so doing, they overspend. The compulsive spender then feels guilt and shame over spending too much and finding him or herself in debt. As a result, he or she may become secretive about the problem. In order to overcome the negative, inadequate feelings created by the addiction, he or she indulges again, lying to cover up how much was spent, throwing away price tags and receipts, doing financial juggling with checkbooks and savings, borrowing from other people and borrowing from one line of credit to pay another, "maxing out" their credit cards and doing anything to get money to cover up their addiction. "
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Shopping Centers, 2007.
This paper explores the reasons for customer satisfaction in shopping malls.
4,073 words (approx. 16.3 pages), 19 sources, MLA, $ 109.95
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The paper examines the factors and elements that are related to customer satisfaction. The paper focuses on the differential data relating to gender and age differences in customer satisfaction. The paper reveals how many factors impact the satisfaction of customers including the shopping mall design, location, stores availability, entertainment availability and availability of places to rest and for children to play. The paper also discusses pricing, stock, environment, configuration, whether the store has online Internet shopping and the culinary offerings of the shopping mall.
Outline:
Bigger "Mega' Centers Customer-Preferred
Branding and Image are One-in-the-Same
Lack of Effective Planning Leads to Irrational Development Patterns
Teens, Preferences and Satisfaction Attributes of Shopping Malls
Gender-Focused Research and Customer Satisfaction Variables
Successful Pricing-Strategies
Store Design and Customer Satisfaction
Internet Shopping and the Impact on Traditional Store Shopping
Design of Shopping Mall (Location and Design Factors)
Summary of Review of Literature
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"A press release in 2005 related that "in the next two years the total retain spending in UAE is expected to grow to AED 35bn (US$9.5bn) from the present level AED 26bn (US$7bn) or a growth rate of 35%." (Dubai Women's College, 2006) Furthermore the Dubai shopping centers have grown from 2 only one decade ago to approximately 35 shopping centers and ten of them stated to "fall under the category of "Mega" centers, hosting almost every major brand label around the world... [with a reported] retail space...estimated at 2 million square feet...[which incidentally] is "one of the highest per capita availability in the world.""
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"Shopping for Pleasure", 2002.
Explores Erika D. Rappaport's "Shopping for Pleasure" which presents shopping as an expression of feminity in Victorian England.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper explores the qualities of femininity as expressed through shopping in respect to Erika D. Rappaport's book "Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End". The theme of this paper is that shopping allowed women to have a realm of social influence that was separate from their male counterpart and this was a positive solution for women seeking independence in the male- dominated pleasure city of Victorian London.
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Compulsive Gambling; Causes, Effects, and Solutions, 2002.
A paper which overviews compulsive gambling, gives examples of addictive gamblers behavioral patterns and finally lists common and extreme treatments for compulsive gamblers.
2,372 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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This paper begins by describing addictive gambling and what causes it. It then cites various examples of compulsive gamblers and the devastation that they have experienced as a result of their adiction. It explains their behavioral problems and patterns. Finally the paper lists resources such a Gamblers Anonymous and other treatments available for compulsive gambling.
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"Many people today suffer from a variety of addictions. The first assumption commonly related with addiction is substance abuse, addiction to a drug or alcohol. While drug and alcohol abuse are serious issues that people battle with everyday, there is an emerging addiction that is similar to substance abuse with effects that are just as devastating. Addiction to gambling is a serious problem that is plaguing our country slowly and unnoticeably. Not only is gambling addicting for some people, it can have devastating effects on the addict and the addict?s family. Evidence supports the probability that many people are not aware of the increase of gambling addicts in society and furthermore are unaware of the effects of problem gambling. However, after studies of problem gamblers involving what drives a gambling addict, there are resources to help cure addictive gamblers."
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Shopping Online, 2006.
This paper discusses to what extent the electronic marketing channel is the future of shopping.
3,836 words (approx. 15.3 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 105.95
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The paper discusses shopping online and explains that the method of communication for exchange has become simpler through the fastest method of exchange presently available - electronic communication.
The paper relates that the nature of the economy is changing and in the new situation it is becoming important for companies who want to be leaders in the economy to master multi-channel marketing.The paper discusses the structure, advantages and disadvantages of multi-channel marketing. The paper concludes that online shopping has fared better than conventional shopping even in a conservative market like England. Thus there is potential in electronic marketing when it is used as a part of multi-channel marketing and used in a manner to protect the organization's profitability.
Contents:
Executive Summary
Introduction
Structure of the Electronic Marketing Channel:
Advantages of Electronic Marketing Channel
Disadvantages of Electronic Marketing Channel
The Combination of Online and Retail Shopping - the Multi-Channel Marketing Environment
The Future of Online Shopping
Conclusion and Recommendation
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"With the advent of modern computers, electronic marketing has gained tremendous advantage which is being boosted further through the facility of the Internet now spreading out to be within the common man's grasp. Like all other media, the average man also views the computer, combined with the Internet as a medium through which he can gain a lot of information, and this attitude has come through the general use that the computer is put to, especially electronic mail. At the same time, there have been efforts to sell items to the average man through the computer since it is relatively easy and inexpensive to use as a medium."
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Compulsive Spending Behavior, 2007.
An overview of the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of compulsive spending behavior.
5,684 words (approx. 22.7 pages), 20 sources, MLA, $ 137.95
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This paper discusses how addictive disorders are characterized by recurrent failure to control a behavior, increased tension prior to a behavior, and pleasure while experiencing a behavior. In particular, it looks at compulsive spending behavior and how spending addicts use money like a drug.
Outline:
Who Is the Compulsive Spender?
Profile of the Compulsive Spender
Age
Personality
Gender
Race as a Factor
Compulsive Spending Behavior as Part of Pathological Illness
Bipolar Disorder
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"The person who uses money as a drug is an addict. This person utilizes money as a ticket to getting on the fast train or the merry-go-round of a dream life. This person has no concept of bartering. This person uses money like the heroin addict uses a needle. It brings the high, but in itself, is worth nothing. To the compulsive overspender, money is considered worthless. It is a means to an end and is held in such low esteem that it is literally thrown away. Once the person wakes up in the morning and realizes what they have done and that they will have to pay in terms of time, anxiety, work and years of poverty, they may come to value the reality of what money is a little more. But the habit has set in and the next time the addict wishes to find a "high," overspending will occur again."
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, 2004.
This paper discusses Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), a brain-based psychological disorder characterized by uncontrollable obsessions to perform repeatedly behavioral rituals.
1,215 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper discusses that Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) must be distinguished from Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD), which is a completely different psychiatric disorder. Despite some similarity between the irrational themes underlying each disorder, OCPD patients do not typically perform compulsive rituals; rather, they tend to become preoccupied with perfectionism or with ordered regularity or rules. The author points out that Behavioral Modification Therapy is unsuccessful by itself, but it is often combined with Cognitive Therapy, in which the therapist discusses the irrationality of the specific fears underlying the patient?s fears and compulsions. The paper states that the first goal of pharmacological treatment of OCD is to maintain a sufficient level of serotonin in the brain to eliminate OCD symptoms.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Symptoms
Treatment
Prognosis
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"The first line of medications used in conjunction with treatment of OCD is anti-anxiety medications or mild sedatives to counteract the increased anxiety that is often brought on by behavioral and cognitive psychotherapeutic approaches. If the patient is unresponsive (or not satisfactorily responsive) to a combination of behavioral and cognitive therapy, the next approach is usually the prescription of a Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitor. Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitors are classified either as Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SRI) or Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI). As their names imply, both SRI?s and SSRI?s block the reuptake (or absorption) of the neurotransmitter seratonin to address seratonin insufficiency in the brains of patients exhibiting OCD symptoms. SSRI?s are usually employed first because they affect only seratonin; whereas, SRI?s also impinge upon other neurotransmitters that are unrelated to OCD symptoms. Consequently, SRI?s are more likely to result in coincidental unwanted side effects, such as weight gain, tiredness, dizziness, as well as blood pressure changes and even cardiac irregularities."
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Internet Shopping, 2003.
Examines the effects of Internet shopping on the retail industry.
3,450 words (approx. 13.8 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 119.95
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This paper examines the effects of Internet shopping on the retail industry. It gives several examples including Staples and the GAP. The paper looks at the advantages and disadvantages of implementing on-line shopping and the development of the Internet. The paper looks at the global nature of the marketplace and the growth of online shopping.
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On-Line Shopping, 2004.
An analysis of the use of the Internet for on-line shopping.
1,190 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper examines how on-line shopping was one of the new activities that was created through the use of the Internet and how its emergence cannot be considered a linear process. It looks at how, based on social constructivism, its development is attributed to different social interests from many social groups and how these social interests result in the pros and cons of the use of Internet for on-line shopping. It attempts to utilize different theories to analyze the use of Internet for online shopping.
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"The use of Internet for online shopping also impacts human society in other ways. It constructs a new social relation. Conventional shopping way requires the meet up between consumers and retailers, but the Internet closes the gap between consumers and producers. Consumers can more directly reflect their need to producers through the virtual world, but interestingly, they do not have to meet up. The position of retailer seems disappearing. Some people consider it as alienation between people due to the adoption of this technology , but some think it as more frequent interactions between consumers and producers."
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Samantha Jones and Compulsive Sexual Behavior, 2006.
This paper describes various views on the psychological disorder of compulsive sexual behavior.
1,368 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 45.95
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This paper explores what psychologists call compulsive sexual behavior. Although this disorder is classified in the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders), therapists and researchers question whether moral judgments may influence a diagnosis. The paper further describes the major categories of compulsive sexual behavior. Finally, the paper concludes that there is disagreement as to whether CSB is an addiction, a psychosexual developmental disorder, an impulse control disorder, a mood disorder, or an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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"According to Vukadinovic, literature on sexual compulsivity and sexual addiction has been preoccupied with issues of definition, especially as it pertains to DSM-IV (Vukadinovic). Moreover, there has been little attention given to the possible causal explanations for why, in some cases, sexual behavior become problematic (Vukadinovic). Most researchers make statements about likely mechanisms, such as anxiety reduction or mood regulation, however there are usually based on clinical impression rather than on reported data (Vukadinovic).
Researchers are now giving more attention to the fact that out of control sexual behavior can be reduced with mood elevating drugs such as the SSRIs, but as yet, no one knows the extent to which such pharmacological benefits, when they occur, result from improvement in mood or specific inhibition of sexual repsonse or both (Vukadinovic)."
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), 2008.
A critique of the film "What About Bob?" by Frank Oz and book
"Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: The Latest Assessment and Treatment Strategies" by Gail Steketee.
960 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 34.95
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This paper presents a critique of a film, What About Bob", and a book, "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: The latest Assessmentand Treatment Strategies, which are both about obsessive compulsive disorder. The paper explains that the author learned from the film that the sociopathic, interpersonal behaviors, which the character of Bob in the film exhibits, are some of the symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD). The paper then relates that a major area of contention in the book is the use of medications to help resolve the common symptoms of OCD. The author stresses that Steketee provides a great deal of insight about behavioral therapy, which provides far more solutions to OCD than the medicinal and surgical treatments often found in other studies done for patient treatment.
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"Some of the others question about Steketee's reliance on behavioral therapy for treatment is the Appendix where she describes many of the findings of clinical studies that provide information about behavioral therapy. Certainly, the success rates of behavioral therapy need to be addressed far more often than the heavily sponsored pharmaceutical studies being done due to their massive financial resources. Steketee provides the foundation for behavioral studies that give her the premise of providing more behavioral solutions for patients that are suffering from this disorder."
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Holiday Shopping, 2002.
Examines the demographics of postponing holiday shopping, based on research.
2,650 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 97.95
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This paper examines the demographics of postponing holiday shopping. This is accomplished in part due to a literature analysis and in part due to a fictitious survey that was conducted during the holiday shopping season of 2000 - 2001 at three urban malls. This paper determines that male shoppers are far more likely than female shoppers to postpone their holiday shopping until immediately before the holidays. In order to take advantage of this, merchants should concentrate on promotional packages that will attract male shoppers, such as gift boxes that are easily displayed and accessible to the shoppers.
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Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, 2006.
A case study of a woman diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
2,323 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 71.95
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This paper discusses abnormal psychology and personality disorders in general and obsessive-compulsive disorder in particular, with a full case study of a woman diagnosed with this complaint. It details all the related symptoms and their manifestation concluding with suitable available treatments.
Outline:
Introduction
Case Study Particulars
The Prevalence and Characteristics of Anxiety Disorders
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
The Physiological basis of anxiety disorders
Diagnostic Alternatives
Treatment Strategies
Conclusion
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"According to Martin Kantor, abnormal psychology concerns "the study of mental disorders and maladaptive behavior, including neuroses and psychoses, and of normal phenomena that are not completely understood, such as dreams and altered states of consciousness" (1992). As a branch of the study of abnormal psychology, a personality disorder "is a non-psychotic mental illness characterized by enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about oneself and the environment in ways that are maladaptive, being those that go against normal adaptive processes" (McNeil, 1970). Thus, an individual affected with a personality disorder often utilizes inflexible behavior patterns in order to fulfill his/her own personal needs and attain self-satisfaction, often at the expense of others and society. These traits mainly result in severe functional impairment and/or subjective distress, usually imagined or brought on by a particular illness.
"Having a personality disorder means that the affected individual is not the kind of person who can adapt smoothly to the normal routines of everyday life. Instead, the person expects the world and those in his orbit to change rather than being able to adjust to the requirements of different situations and relationships. In essence, the affected person behaves in a rigid and inflexible way that perpetuates vicious cycles and fulfills his/her worst prophecies".
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