Parasocial Break-Up from Favorite Television Characters: The Role of Attachment Styles and Relationship Intensity

By Jonathan Cohen. 2004

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Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Literature and Literary Theory

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Television as escape from self: Psychological predictors of media involvement (2008, background): “Specifically, research shows that individuals’ attachment style is not only relevant to their relationships with close others in their lives but to parasocial relationships as well (Cohen, 2004; Cole & Leets, 1999; Greenwood & Pietromonaco, 2004).”
The Parasocial Contact Hypothesis (2005, background): “Cohen (2004) relates that subjects responded to a hypothetical parasocial “break-up” in similar ways as they would to interpersonal break-ups.”
Individual differences and lying in everyday life (2008, background): “Such a finding adds to the existing body of research documenting that attachment relates to a large range of relational activities (Cohen, 2004; Cole & Leets, 1999; Keelan et al., 1998) and its impact may not be restricted to behaviour within close emotionally involved relationships.”
When Good Friends Say Goodbye: A Parasocial Breakup Study (2006, background): “The difference in PSR between the genders found in this study is consistent with past research (Cohen, 2004; Eyal & Rubin, 2003).”
From "I Love You Babe" to "Leave Me Alone" - Romantic Relationship Breakups on Twitter (2014, result): “Even though in this study we ignored para-social relationships with teen celebrities like @justinbieber and @katyperry, we could have looked at how these relationships evolve over time [5].”
Grief, commiseration, and consumption following the death of a celebrity (2012, background): “For example, fans may feel a sense of loss when a favourite television programme goes off the air (Cohen, 2004; Eyal and Cohen, 2006).”
How Do We React When Our Favorite Characters Are Taken Away? An Examination of a Temporary Parasocial Breakup (2011, background): “More recently, Cohen (2004) found that when individuals imagine the loss of their favorite character, not only do they experience distress, but this emotional distress closely mirrors that of a real breakup.”
Why brands should fear fearful consumers: How attachment style predicts retaliation (2012, background): “, TV characters; Cole & Leets, 1999) but the most likely to experience distress when such relationships end (Cohen, 2004).”
Tweeting Prayers and Communicating Grief Over Michael Jackson Online (2010, background): “Research studies using these scales have found that PSI mirrors actual social relationships and that media users employ similar processes when evaluating both media figures and actual relational partners (Cohen, 2004; Giles, 2002; Rubin & McHugh, 1987; Tsao, 1996).”
The impact of the source credibility of Instagram influencers on travel intention: The mediating role of parasocial interaction (2021, unknown): “Interpersonal and parasocial relationships are similar (Cohen, 2004; Perse and Rubin, 1989).”
Social surrogacy: How favored television programs provide the experience of belonging (2009, background): “For example, extensive anecdotal evidence suggests that people commonly react to the end of a television series as if it were the end of a relationship (Cohen, 2004).”