Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH, USA.
Int J Psychiatry Clin Pract. 2013 Feb;17(1):73-6. doi: 10.3109/13651501.2011.653379. Epub 2012 Feb 1.
Childhood trauma has been empirically associated with various types of self-regulatory difficulties in adulthood. However, according to the extant literature, no study has examined relationships between various types of childhood trauma and compulsive buying behavior in adulthood.
Using a self-report survey methodology in a cross-sectional consecutive sample of 370 obstetrics/gynecology patients, we examined five types of childhood trauma before the age of 12 years (i.e. witnessing violence, physical neglect, emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse) in relationship to compulsive buying as assessed by the Compulsive Buying Scale (CBS).
All forms of trauma demonstrated statistically significant correlations with the CBS. Using a linear regression analysis, both witnessing violence and emotional abuse significantly contributed to CBS scores. Further analyses indicated that race did not moderate the relationship between childhood trauma and compulsive buying.
Findings indicate that various forms of childhood trauma are correlated with compulsive buying behavior, particularly witnessing violence and emotional abuse.
童年创伤已被实证研究与成年后各种类型的自我调节困难相关联。然而，根据现有文献，尚无研究检验各种类型的童年创伤与成年期强迫性购买行为之间的关系。
我们在横断面连续样本中使用自我报告调查方法，对 370 名妇产科患者进行研究，调查了 12 岁之前的五种类型的童年创伤（即目睹暴力、身体忽视、情感虐待、身体虐待、性虐待），这些创伤与使用强迫性购买量表（CBS）评估的强迫性购买行为有关。
所有形式的创伤与 CBS 均呈统计学显著相关。线性回归分析表明，目睹暴力和情感虐待均显著影响 CBS 评分。进一步的分析表明，种族并不能调节童年创伤与强迫性购买之间的关系。
研究结果表明，各种形式的童年创伤与强迫性购买行为相关，特别是目睹暴力和情感虐待。
