Celebrity Worship
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- Created on: 04-04-19 18:56
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- Celebrity Worship
- McCutcheon (2002) 3 stages of CW
- Low Worship: individualistic behaviours e.g. watching and reading about them
- Slightly Higher Level: celebrity worship takes a social character
- Highest Level: characterised by a mix of empathy with celeb's successes and failures, over identification, compulsive behaviours, obsession for details of celebs life
- Model is based on psychological absorption and addiction
- Fan motivation (two groups)
- Mild forms e.g. fan clubs
- Extreme expressions e.g. erotomania, stalking and inappropriate correspondence with celebrities
- Celebrity Worship Syndrome
- an obsessive-addictive disorder where an individual becomes overly involved and interested with the details of the personal life of a celebrity.
- Maltby's three independent dimensions of CW
- entertainment-social
- People who worshipped celebrities for entertainment and social reasons were more optimistic, outgoing, and happy.
- intense-personal
- Those who worshipped celebrities for personal reasons or were more obsessive were more depressed, more anxious, more solitary, more impulsive, more anti-social and more troublesome.
- borderline pathological
- found a correlation between the pathological aspects of CWS and poor mental health in UK participants
- entertainment-social
- McCutcheon (2002) 3 stages of CW
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