Background Eating disorders (ED) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are highly
comorbid, but little is known about how this comorbidity is maintained. Prior research …

Despite the significant research on the impact of social media in people's lives, little is
known about the extent to which social media impacts on compulsive buying behaviour …

Hoarding disorder (HD) is relatively common within the community but remains notoriously
difficult to treat, a phenomenon that could be related, at least in part, to the number of …

This study aimed at examining the role of personality traits in impulsive buying, compulsive
buying, and panic buying simultaneously during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the beginning …

Decluttering discourses position clutter as meaningless things as well as, seemingly
paradoxically, morally problematic–as signs of laziness or an individual failure to organise …

Using a transdiagnostic perspective, the present research examined the prominent
indicators of substance (alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, tobacco) and behavioral (gambling …

Life history theory provides a unified perspective for understanding human behaviors as
adaptive strategies to specific environmental conditions. Within this theoretical framework …

Diagnostic criteria for compulsive buying shopping disorder were recently proposed based
on a Delphi consensus study including 138 experts from 35 countries. The present study …

This chapter focuses on cognitive models of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and
related disorders. It begins with a historical perspective, in which the antecedents of …

Introduction Eating disorders (EDs) and behavioural addictions show common
psychological vulnerability factors such as alexithymia and stressful life events (SLE). This …