Development and validation of a parasocial interaction measure: The audience‐persona interaction scale

By Philip J. Auter, Philip C. Palmgreen. 2000

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Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Literature and Literary Theory

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Tweeting Prayers and Communicating Grief Over Michael Jackson Online (2010, background): “When PSI opportunities with a particular media figure are lost, audience members may “move on” and search out new parasocial partners.”
Horton and Wohl Revisited: Exploring Viewers' Experience of Parasocial Interaction (2011, background): “Therefore, the scale primarily captures users’ friendships toward media performers, rather than users’ feeling of being involved in an interaction with the performer during media exposure (Auter & Palmgreen, 2000; Cohen, 2009; Schramm & Hartmann, 2008).”
Para-Romantic Love and Para-Friendships: Development and Assessment of a Multiple-Parasocial Relationships Scale (2010, background): “More recently, several attempts have been made to create multidimensional PSR scales (Auter & Palmgreen, 2000; Sood, 2002).”
Parasocial Interaction: A Review of the Literature and a Model for Future Research (2002, background): “A more recent challenge to the notion that PSI represents a unitary concept has been made by Auter and Palmgreen (2000), who have developed a multidimensional measure of PSI, the Audience–Persona Interaction (API) Scale.”
Making and breaking relationships on social media: the impacts of brand and influencer betrayals (2021, background): “…of parasocial relationships may entail the feeling of knowing the performer well (Brown, 2015), identification with and interest in the performer (Auter and Palmgreen, 2000), the feeling of being among friends while consuming media content and wanting to meet the performer in real life (Rubin et…”
A Model and Measure of US Parents' Perceptions of Young Children's Parasocial Relationships (2014, result): “Our finding that PSR are multidimensional constructs for young children reinforces previous PSR measurement development with adolescent samples (Auter & Palmgreen, 2000).”
Parasocial Interaction With Liked, Neutral, and Disliked Characters on a Popular TV Series (2010, methodology): “Perceived similarity was measured by five of the six items from a subscale of Auter and Palmgreen's ( 2000 ) Audience-Persona Interaction scale.”
When Good Friends Say Goodbye: A Parasocial Breakup Study (2006, methodology): “PSRs, which has focused on the same population (Auter, 1992; Auter & Palmgreen, 2000; R. B. Rubin & McHugh, 1987; Turner, 1993).”
Tornadoes, television and trust—A closer look at the influence of the local weathercaster during severe weather (2005, methodology): “This survey included 10 questions, combining recent work by Auter and Palmgreen (2000) with the standard measure by Rubin et al. (1985).”
The Influence of Social Media Influencers: Understanding Online Vaping Communities and Parasocial Interaction through the Lens of Taylor’s Six-Segment Strategy Wheel (2018, methodology): “To determine the satisfaction coding category, this study looked at the four variables suggested by Auter and Palmgreen (2000), which included alignment, success, agreement, and aspiration.”
The Parasocial Contact Hypothesis (2005, background): “In addition to parasocial contact with “real” individuals, people also have parasocial contact with fictional characters (Auter & Palmgreen, 2000).”
The PSI-Process Scales. A new measure to assess the intensity and breadth of parasocial processes (2008, background): “Early uses-and-gratification studies considered PSI as a gratification that users seek from the media (Auter and Palmgreen, 2000).”
Parasocial Relationships with Media Personae: Why They Matter and How They Differ Among Heterosexual, Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adolescents (2018, background): “Exposure can increase feelings of connectedness and strengthen PSRs (Auter & Palmgreen, 2000).”
“You're the Kind of Guy That We All Want for a Drinking Buddy”: Expressions of Parasocial Interaction on Floydlandis.com (2009, unknown): “PSI is a multifaceted construct (Auter & Palmgreen, 2000 ; Nordlund, 1978 ; Rosengren & Windahl, 1972 ; Rubin & Perse, 1987 ; Rubin et al, 1985 ).”