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What are the five factors that may influence celebrity worship? |
Age Education Gender Personality Mental health |
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Age |
Can be seen in all age groups peaks at 11 to 17 years declining afterwards During this time teenagers are likely to have a weak sense of identity |
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Gender |
Males often have sports stars as their idols Women entertainment and arts celebrities Females are more likely to label their worship as intense |
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Personality |
Celebrity worshippers do not have cognitive flexibility therefore are rigid to the point of obsessive Poor social skills- hinders interpersonal relationships so celebs provide a source of pseudo friends
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Education |
The less education the greater amount of CW - McCutcheon et al |
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Mental Health |
Erotamania is a mental health disorder that causes an individual to have illusions that a celebrity has fallen in love with them |
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Maltby |
Found 3 dimensions of celebrity worship: Entertainment social (attracted for entertainment value) Intense personal (develop intensive and compulsive feelings, borderline obsessional) Borderline pathological (uncontrollable behaviours and fantasies) 2004: found Entertainment social were healthy mentally those in higher categories were prone to mental and physical health disorders. |
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Gabriel |
Pps who scored low on a self esteem questionnaire scored higher after writing an essay on their favourite celebrity Suggests they assimilated some of the celebrities characteristics into themselves |
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McCutcheon et al. |
Found negative correlation of -0.4 between the amount of education and amount of celebrity worship Suggests those with less education have a more intense interest in celebrities |
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Strengths and Weaknessess |
+Takes into account Psychodynamic/cognitive/sociological aspects - Post Hoc models describe the process of CW not where the behaviours came from -Reliant upon self report- Social desirability -rather than it being the less educated a person is the more likely they are to 'worship' a celebrity it may be that the more educate they are the more likely they are to understand how negatively society views celebrity worship |
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Research methodology criticisms |
Maltby: Large sample size across a range of ages- a representative sample, can be generalised across the wider population McCutcheon et al: Study included younger people who may not have finished education 2004 he ignored any ppt under 25 and still found a measurement of -0.32 suggesting education to be an important factor. |
