Thou shalt worship no other gods — unless they are celebrities: the relationship between celebrity worship and religious orientation

By John Maltby, J. Houran, R. Lange, Diane D. Ashe, L. McCutcheon. 2002

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Literature and Literary Theory

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The role of media figures in adolescent development: relations between autonomy, attachment, and interest in celebrities (2004, methodology): “A previous factor analysis of CAS items yielded three factors; entertainment/social, intense/ personal and mild pathological (Maltby et al., 2002).”
Assessing Celebrity Endorsement Effects in China (2011, result): “They conducted a factor analysis (with varimax rotation) and identified an entertainment-based dimension (α = 0.88) and an intense attachment dimension (α = 0.86) that concurred with previous studies (Giles and Malthy, 2004; Maltby et al., 2002).”
Introducing the New Indices of Religious Orientation (NIRO): Conceptualization and measurement (2007, unknown): “(Storch & Storch, 2001), alcohol use (Patock-Peckham, Hutchinson, Cheong, & Nagoshi, 1998), attitude toward Christianity (Joseph & Lewis, 1997), attribution of success and failure (Hovemyr, 1998), authoritarianism (Leak & Randall, 1995), blood pressure (Hixson, Gruchow, & Morgan, 1998), celebrity wo”
Celebrity influences on consumer decision making: new insights and research directions (2019, unknown): “…more likely to display dysfunctional obsessive-compulsive behaviours, low satisfaction with life, low self-esteem, low self-concept clarity, depression and anxiety (Green, Aruguete, McCutcheon, Griffith, & Edman, 2014; Maltby & Day, 2011; Maltby et al., 2004, 2002; Reeves, Baker, & Truluck, 2012).”
FANatics: Systematic literature review of factors associated with celebrity worship, and suggested directions for future research (2018, background): “However, many studies (Ashe et al. 2005; Giles and Maltby 2004; Maltby and Day 2011; Maltby et al. 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2011; McCutcheon 2002; McCutcheon et al. 2003, 2015) found no difference in CAS scores between genders.”