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- Title: Exploring the Link Between Attachment and the Inclination to Obsess About Or Stalk Celebrities.
- Author : North American Journal of Psychology
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 212 KB
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Insecure attachment to one's parents has been shown to contribute to poor adjustment as an adult. We investigated whether insecure attachment in childhood is associated with attachment to celebrities and a tendency to approve of celebrity stalking behaviors. We measured childhood attachment, celebrity worship, and the tendency to condone celebrity stalking in 299 college students. Those who reported insecure attachments as children were more likely to condone behaviors indicative of celebrity stalking. Moreover, those who formed strong attachments to their favorite celebrities (celebrity worshippers) were more likely to condone celebrity stalking than those who were not as strongly attracted to their favorite celebrities. Contrary to the hypothesis, insecure attachment was not significantly associated with attraction to celebrities. Results are discussed in relation to the "Absorption-addiction" model. Ainsworth's attachment theory (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978) has long enjoyed considerable popularity among developmental psychologists. Attachment theory posits that warm, responsive parenting produces infants who feel secure enough to explore their environment. Parents who are inconsistent in responding to their infants' signals tend to produce children who are anxiously preoccupied with parental attention, and this reduces exploration. Parents who are cold and rejecting tend to produce children who eventually learn to avoid contact with their parents, exploring instead the "neutral world of things" (Ainsworth, et al., 1978, p. 310).