parasocial relationships

Question 1

parasocial relations

Answer 1

one sided unreciprocated relationship where an indivdual spends a lot of energy on another person

Question 2

1. entertainment social

Answer 2

• celebs are a soruce of entertainement and gossip

Question 3

2. intense personal

Answer 3

obsessive thoughts and intense feelings begin to arise

Question 4

3.border line pathological

Answer 4

over identification with the celeb gives rise to uncontrollable fantasies

Question 5

absorption addiction model

Answer 5

absorption - individual becomes preoccupied with the celeb and identifies with them
addiction - individual increases their dose of involvement with the celeb in order to gain satisfactin - can lead to extreeme and delusinal behaviour

Question 6

attachment theory

Answer 6

insecure resistant - more liely to form psr
- afraid of criticism and rejection
- translates into clingy and jealus behaviours making it diffciult to commit

Question 7

strengths

Answer 7

real world app - maltby
- measured relationship between celeb worship and body image in teens
found yng girls at the intense p level tends to have poorer body image
extraverts - 1
neurotics - 2
psychotics - 3

• suggests that researchs is used to improve understanding of disorders

Question 8

limitation

Answer 8

correlational
- cause and effect cant be established - lowers valdity

self report methods
- social desriabilitu bias
lowers internal valdity

nomothetic approach
- attempts to establish universal principles so it misses out on deep insight into the reasons for behaviour ( idiographic)

schmid and klimmit - culture
- studied psr with characteristics from harry p in different cultures and found that similar levels in germany and mexico