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【英文原文】
In Recession, Women Splurge as if Addicted
摘要：也許大部分人都覺得不足為奇：女性在經濟危機時期反而比平時更愛購物了。
This may come as little surprise to most people: In times of crisis, women are more likely to take a shopping spree than in normal times.
A new survey finds almost half of UK women are frightened or scared by the recession, and 45 percent felt their financial situation had taken a hit. A full 75 percent said they would be making cutbacks.
Yet 79 percent of them said they would splurge to cheer themselves up.
Of the 700 women surveyed, 40 percent said depression was an excuse to overspend; 60 percent said "feeling a bit low" was a good enough reason.
"This type of spending, or compensatory consumption, serves as a way of regulating intense emotions," said Karen Pine, a University of Hertfordshire professor and author of "Sheconomics" .
The itch to shop has long been known to overwhelm some people, either because of simple materialism or to compensate for emotional problems. Many researchers liken it to addiction, and some think it has been a growing problem in the modern consumerism society.
