Shopping Addiction Self-Assessment
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Introduction: Discovering Your Shopping Patterns
Welcome to the Shopping Addiction Self-Assessment! You’ve taken a powerful step in choosing to understand more about your relationship with shopping. This self-assessment is designed to help you reflect on your shopping behaviors, identify triggers, and gain insight into the impact that shopping may have on your life.
Why Self-Assessment?
Self-assessment is a way to bring awareness to our actions and emotions. When it comes to shopping habits, awareness is the first step toward change. Many of us shop to fulfill emotional needs, avoid stress, or experience temporary excitement—but over time, these habits can take a toll on our well-being, finances, and relationships.
This guide consists of structured exercises that will help you:
• Reflect on your shopping behaviors and motivations,
• Identify the emotional or situational triggers that may lead to impulsive spending,
• Evaluate how shopping impacts your life, and
• Develop a personal action plan to start making positive changes.
How to Use This Self-Assessment
As you go through each section, try to be as honest and thorough as possible with your responses. This isn’t about judgment—it’s about understanding yourself better. Take your time with each question and allow yourself to explore what you’re truly feeling and thinking. You may be surprised by what you discover along the way. Each section includes:
• Self-Reflection Questions: Thought-provoking prompts that encourage you to look at the why behind your shopping habits.
• Checklists and Rating Scales: These simple tools help you identify patterns and rate your behaviors.
• Goal-Setting Prompts: At the end, you’ll create a Personal Action Plan to take control and shape new habits.
