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1
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intense fandom intro?

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

2
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research no.1?

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measuring celeb worship

3
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how to we measure celeb worship?

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

4
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who thought of celeb attitude scale?

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maltby maltby et al 2006

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what are the 3 levels of celeb worship?

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  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
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how common is it?

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

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eval of scale?

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-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

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research no.2?

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celeb worship & developmental problems

9
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research people for no.2?

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chung and yue and maltby et al

10
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chung and yue no.2?

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

11
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maltby no.2?

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

12
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celeb worship and developmental problems eval?

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

13
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what is stalking?

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repeated following and harrassing another threatening their safety

14
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two examples of research for stalking?

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attachment style & mental health

15
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researcher for attachment style?

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

16
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example of insecure attachment style?

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

17
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evaluation of attachment?

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-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

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what is mental health research?

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

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eval mental health;

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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