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Relationships - Parasocial Relationships
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- 1What are parasocial relationships?Relationships with famous people, typically pop stars and sports stars. they are one sided
- 2what are the three stages of the celebrity attitude scale?Entertainment social level - sees the celebrity as providing entertainment
intense personal level - the person develops intense feelings bordering on obsessive
borderline-pathology level - person develops uncontrollable thoughts and fantasies. they believe they are in a relationship - 3Whats the absorption addiction modelthose who have a weak sense of personal identitity or poor psychological adjustment develop abnormal relationships with celebrities.
most people will have a degree of admiration.
people with poor mental health go further hoping to absorb their success. in some cases people become addicted to the celebrit. - 4McCutcheon studyused CAS to survey 600 people. only 20% fell into the first category. 10% into the second and !% into the first (delusional)
the first two categories - 5evaluation (study)Maltby et al - Eysneck personality questionnaire to assess the relationships between parasocial relationships and personality.
entertainment social level associated with extraversion.
Intense personal level associated with neuroticism (self report) - 6Evaluationnot all people with poor mental health develop parasocial relationships, suggests there are individual differences.
- 7EvaluationGreater understanding of celebrity worship- stalking
development of therapies including psychotherapy with a role for drug therapy to reduce the obsessive tendencies - 8Attachment theory as an explanation of Parasocial relationshipsresistant most likely (lets them attach without fear of rejection)
avoidant least likely (unlikely to invest emotional attachment)
secure attachment are middle (don't need to seek attachments) - 9Evaluation (named)Kienlen et al - 63% of stalkers experienced a loss of primary caregiver
50% reported childhood emotional, physical or sexual abuse by caregivers
disturbed attachment patterns are related to parasocial relationships - 10Evaluationseeking proximity to the attachment theory.
Those in parasocial relationships may seek proximity to the attachment figure and will go to extreme legnths - 11Evaluation (study)Measured attachment types in celebrity attitudes in 299 pps. ps with insecure resistant no more likely to form a parasocial relationship than secure attachment.
retrospective self data
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- Levels of parasocial relationships, the absorption model and the attachment theory
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