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Flashcards by Lilly Clare, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Lilly Clare
about 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What are parasocial relationships? | Relationships with famous people, typically pop stars and sports stars. they are one sided |
| what 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 |
| Whats the absorption addiction model | those 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. |
| McCutcheon study | used 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 |
| evaluation (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) |
| Evaluation | not all people with poor mental health develop parasocial relationships, suggests there are individual differences. |
| Evaluation | Greater understanding of celebrity worship- stalking development of therapies including psychotherapy with a role for drug therapy to reduce the obsessive tendencies |
| Attachment theory as an explanation of Parasocial relationships | resistant 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) |
| Evaluation (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 |
| Evaluation | seeking proximity to the attachment theory. Those in parasocial relationships may seek proximity to the attachment figure and will go to extreme legnths |
| Evaluation (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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