Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Intense fandom
- Celebrity stalking
- Willful, malicious & repeated
following/harassing that
threatens someone's safety
- Pathe & Mullen
- Effects of stalking
include anxiety and
suicidal thoughts
- Celebrity Stalking Scale - 11
item Likert scale free from SD
bias. 2 sub scales: persistent
pursuit and threat
- Meloy
- 3 types of victim:
prior sexual
intimates, prior
acquaintances,
strangers
- Keinlen
- Disturbed attachment &
research loss linked to
stalking. Victims want to compensate for loss
- Cyber stalking
- Finn
- Allows anonymity &
behaviour that the
stalker may not be
brace enough to do
face-to-face
- General evaluation
- Practical application
if we can develop
suitable therapy (e.g.
drugs,
psychotherapy)
- Psychopathic celeb stalkers
are resistant to treatment.
Stalking = complex/not
unitary
- Celebrity worship
- Malty's Celebrity Attitude Scale (Likert)
- Entertainment-social factor (fan club),
intense-personal factor (shrine),
borderline-psychological (fantasies)
- McCutcheon
- Findings suggest that CW is
on a sliding scale rather than
distinct catagories
- Negative correlation between
education & worship - more
intelligent people see through
the celebrity cult BUT correlation?
- The difference is
that the first two are
passive. Only <1% =
psychological
- Gabriel
- Students completed question
on self-esteem then wrote
essay about celebrity. Those
with low self-esteem had higher
score
- General evaluation
- Giles & Maltby
- Is it the celebrity
themselves or the
status of the celeb
that is worshipped?
- West & Sweeting
- Practical application:
CW teaching in schools
- Kennedy
- Suggests genetic link - but
nature or nurture?