Can shopping relieve stress?
According to a study (do) by University of Michigan researchers, shopping to relieve stress was up to 40 times more effective at giving people a sense of control and shoppers were three times less sad compared to thoseonly browsed for items.
More than half of the 1, 000 (consumer) said they had impulsively (冲动地）shopped to deal with feelings of stress, (anxious) or depression. Twenty-three percent of respondents (受访者)said they had maxed a credit card in the past year.
In fact, shopping to reduce stress can actually help you live a (healthy) life by making sure that your blood pressure is lowered.
Shopping to relieve stress (know) as "retail therapy". The survey found that 82 percent had positive feelings about (they) purchases and the positive mood that followed those purchases was long-lasting.
However, the side effect of "retail therapy", for many, can start out as a relatively harmless mood booster but could (possible) grow into a compulsion (强迫心理) that spends all income, causing conflict. As result, it adds a significant amount of stress to a person's life.
