Compulsive Shopping Test: Measure Your Buying Habits

Shopping can be enjoyable and even therapeutic for many people, but for some, buying becomes difficult to control and starts to interfere with daily life. The Compulsive Shopping Tendencies Test is designed to help you reflect on how often shopping urges, spending habits, and buying-related thoughts affect your emotions, time, and finances.

This self-assessment is informed by psychological research on excessive buying behaviors and focuses on patterns such as impulse purchases, emotional relief from shopping, and difficulty stopping once the urge arises. While it is not a diagnostic tool, it can offer meaningful insight into whether your buying habits may be moving from occasional indulgence toward something more disruptive.

If shopping feels tied to emotional coping or fear of missing out, you may also find it helpful to explore our Fear of Missing Out Scale or the Financial Infidelity Scale to better understand related patterns that sometimes overlap with compulsive spending.