MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY- intense fandom

Question 1

intense fandom intro?

Answer 1

psr relationships can be fairly innoncent until fan passes stage one and becomes stalker

Question 2

research no.1?

Answer 2

measuring celeb worship

Question 3

how to we measure celeb worship?

Answer 3

celeb attitiude scale- measures our attitidues to our feelings or believes about certiain believes

Question 4

who thought of celeb attitude scale?

Answer 4

maltby maltby et al 2006

Question 5

what are the 3 levels of celeb worship?

Answer 5

1. entertainment-social; attratced to celeb for entertainment ‘normal relationship’2. intense-personal- fantasy relationship with celeb obssessive but not dangerous3. bordeline-pathological- fantasy takes over reality and try to make it real

Question 6

how common is it?

Answer 6

quite rare occurence maltby 15 % enterainment 5% intense and 2% boredline

Question 7

eval of scale?

Answer 7

-cheung &yue suggest that celeb worship can icnrease selesteem but only if family memebers etc not tv stars-high level of suicide celebs increase in suicide in general public so we copy behaviour postive and negative

Question 8

research no.2?

Answer 8

celeb worship & developmental problems

Question 9

research people for no.2?

Answer 9

chung and yue and maltby et al

Question 10

chung and yue no.2?

Answer 10

883 chinese teenagers questioned, those who worshipped = low self esteem and less positive attitude to work

Question 11

maltby no.2?

Answer 11

high levels of celeb worship = lower self esteem, poor sense of indentiy, increased anxiety, depression and other disorders

Question 12

celeb worship and developmental problems eval?

Answer 12

relatively small samples, cultural and gender bias oftern seen in females in western culturesmethodological prob= questionnaires tend to give social desirability

Question 13

what is stalking?

Answer 13

repeated following and harrassing another threatening their safety

Question 14

two examples of research for stalking?

Answer 14

attachment style & mental health

Question 15

researcher for attachment style?

Answer 15

kienlen- that the motivations of stalkers are different dependant on kind of insecure attachment they have

Question 16

example of insecure attachment style?

Answer 16

preoccupied stalker- poor self image and constantly seeking approval, stalking to restore positive sense of self

Question 17

evaluation of attachment?

Answer 17

-tomin found stalkers more evidence in insecure attachement styles than a control group of non stalkers-mccuteon those that had insecure attachment were more likely to excuse celeb stalking

Question 18

what is mental health research?

Answer 18

maltby said stalkers develop fixation with another. these stalkers tend to suffer wth mental illness= schizo

Question 19

eval mental health;

Answer 19

mullen 2008 - 20,000 incidents of stalking royal family all had psychotic disordersresearch has real life implications for how we can treat stalkers who are mentally ill