...James Lappeman; Philip Broster; Michaela Madurai; Moyahabo Seabi Masipa; Priviledge Cheteni Purpose Guided by the Roy Adaptation Model ( RAM ), this study aims to explore the attitudes of young South African adults towards modern stress by examining their perceptions, coping mechanisms...

... understanding of compulsive buying as a coping mechanism in early adolescents. Design/methodology/approach The present study is the first to experimentally manipulate a common and important stressor in the lives of adolescents, academic stress, and measures its impact on compulsive buying among a sample...