Completar frases Addicted to the MallVersión en línea Hot Topics 1, ch. 4, text 1 por Tatiana Muchnick 1 Addicted to the Mall What do you do for ? Do you swim , dance , play cards , garden , or read ? Many people today to spend their free time shopping . These people are called recreational shoppers . Recreational shoppers do not always buy something . They really enjoy the shopping . Of course , many people like going to malls . However , for recreational shoppers , the mall is more than . For them , the mall happiness and . For these people , a visit to the mall is an . In fact , for many recreational shoppers the art of looking for and buying something is more fun than it . Recently , a group of psychologists studied recreational shopping . First , they used tests to recreational shoppers . Then they recreational shoppers with shoppers . The psychologists that the two groups were different . Recreational shoppers were usually younger , less self - confident , and more often female . In addition , they were more interested in things and had less self - control . The recreational shoppers also went shopping when they felt , angry , or depressed . shoppers didn't . Most of the recreational shoppers said buying something helped them feel better - it made them happy . Their negative feelings went away . Many recreational shoppers also did something while they were shopping . They that they were different people with different lives . Of course , shopping is an important part of our consumer society . We spend a lot of time in malls . In a recent study , people spent most of their time at home , at work , and in school . Shopping malls fourth . However , in the future , will we think of recreational shopping as an like smoking or drinking ?