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Research on intense fandom - Celebrity Worship
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- 1What is celebrity worship?Obsessive, addictive individual who becomes over-involved in details of celebs' personal life
- 2How is celebrity worship measured?Using the celebrity attitude scale (CAS)
- 3What is CAS?17 item scale
- 4What does a low CAS score indicate?Individualistic behaviour e.g. reading info. about celeb
- 5What does a high CAS score indicate?Obsession
- 6What was CAS used to develop?The absorption addiction model
- 7What did Maltby find?Over 1/3 of students scored over the midpoints of the levels of AAM
- 8How many participants were there in Maltby's research?372
- 9What percentage were entertainment social?15%
- 10What percentage were intense personal?5%
- 11What percentage were borderline pathological?2%
- 12What did Maltby conclude from his research?That CW have low levels of psychological wellbeing
- 13What may the participants use to attempt to hide their obsession? (AO2)Socially desirable answers
- 14What do socially desirable answers do to the research? (AO2)Make the research invalid
- 15What were issues associated with the questions? (AO2)Difficult to interpret and understand
- 16What should have been conducted before using CAS on a large scale? (AO2)Pilot study
- 17What do issues with CAS affect? (AO2)Generalisability
- 18What happened after high profile celebrity suicides? (AO2)Increase in suicide rates in the general population
- 19What doe fans of rebellious celebrities engage in and what does this result in? (AO2)Copy Cat behaviour = negative consequences
- 20Outline one rebellious celebrity? (AO2)Amy Winehouse
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