Media - intense fandom

Question 1

Eysenck - celebrity worship

Answer 1

• personality theory
• entertainment social dimension reflects extraversion personality traits (sociable)
• intense personal dimension relates to neuroticism (anxious)
• borderline pathological relates to psychoticism (antisocial)

Question 2

Maltby - celebrity worship

Answer 2

• positive correlations between personality theory and CAS
• 0.3 for extroversion and entertainment social dimension
• 0.3 between neuroticism and intense personal dimension
• 0.2 between psychoticism and bordeline pathological

Question 3

McCutcheon - characteristics of celebrity worshippers

Answer 3

• measured cognitive ability
• consistenly high negative correlations between scores on CAS and tests measuring cognitive ability; less cognitively able to higher the score of the CAS
• range of measurements increases reliability
• can’t infer causality

Question 4

Maltby - absorption addiction model

Answer 4

• when celebrity worship was associated with eating disorders the group at risk comprised of female adolescents

Question 5

McCutcheon - celebrity stalking

Answer 5

• 299 students completed parental bonding scale
• recall early relationships with parents
• complete celebrity stalking scale; indicate how appropiate different behaviours were
• participants who were insecurely attached were more likely to think that celebrity stalking was acceptable

Question 6

Roberts - celebrity stalking

Answer 6

• 200 students reported actual attempts to contact celebrities and tendencies to avoidance and anxiety
• positive correlation between attachment related anxiety and frequency of self-reported approach behaviour towards a celebrity
• negative correlation between attachment related avoidance and frequency of self-reported approach behaviour towards a celebrity