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Article: Personality and coping: a context for examining celebrity worship and mental health.
- Article from:
- British Journal of Psychology
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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Not only is there growing interest in celebrities in terms of fans and media coverage, but there is also growing evidence to suggest that celebrity worship may be of interest to psychologists. The phenomenon occurs more in adolescents or young adults than older persons (Ashe & McCutcheon, 2001; Giles, 2002; Larsen, 1995), celebrity worshippers are more likely to value a 'game-playing' love style (McCutcheon, Lange, & Houran, 2002), and celebrity worship shares a negative association with some aspects of religiosity (Maltby, Houran, Lange, Ashe, & McCutcheon, 2002). However, celebrity worship does not appear to be related to authoritarianism (Maltby & McCutcheon, 2001) and ...