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Social anxiety and celebrity worship: the mediating effects of mobile phone dependence and moderating effects of family socioeconomic status

The Absorption-addiction model suggests that people worship celebrities to compensate for some personal or social defects, so poor mental state is related to celebrity worship. The current study aimed to explore the underlying mechanisms influencing celebrity worship. A total of 1,147 participants (...

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Autores principales: Jia, Rong, Yang, Qing, Liu, Bo, Song, Han, Wang, Zhengjun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10619286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37908023
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01405-x
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Yang, Qing
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Wang, Zhengjun
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description The Absorption-addiction model suggests that people worship celebrities to compensate for some personal or social defects, so poor mental state is related to celebrity worship. The current study aimed to explore the underlying mechanisms influencing celebrity worship. A total of 1,147 participants (aged 19–26 years) completed online questionnaires to assess social anxiety, mobile phone dependence, parental income and celebrity worship. Results showed that: (1) social anxiety, socioeconomic status (SES) and celebrity worship were positively correlated; (2) Social anxiety affected celebrity worship through mobile phone dependence; (3) SES played a moderating role in the mediation model. At higher levels of SES, individuals with high social anxiety showed reduced dependence on mobile phones. These findings highlight the importance of mobile phone dependence and family SES in celebrity worship. Additionally, the findings demonstrated that females are more likely to pay attention to celebrities, but the greater SES and reduced mobile phone dependence can mitigate their celebrity addiction.
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spelling pubmed-106192862023-11-02 Social anxiety and celebrity worship: the mediating effects of mobile phone dependence and moderating effects of family socioeconomic status Jia, Rong Yang, Qing Liu, Bo Song, Han Wang, Zhengjun BMC Psychol Research The Absorption-addiction model suggests that people worship celebrities to compensate for some personal or social defects, so poor mental state is related to celebrity worship. The current study aimed to explore the underlying mechanisms influencing celebrity worship. A total of 1,147 participants (aged 19–26 years) completed online questionnaires to assess social anxiety, mobile phone dependence, parental income and celebrity worship. Results showed that: (1) social anxiety, socioeconomic status (SES) and celebrity worship were positively correlated; (2) Social anxiety affected celebrity worship through mobile phone dependence; (3) SES played a moderating role in the mediation model. At higher levels of SES, individuals with high social anxiety showed reduced dependence on mobile phones. These findings highlight the importance of mobile phone dependence and family SES in celebrity worship. Additionally, the findings demonstrated that females are more likely to pay attention to celebrities, but the greater SES and reduced mobile phone dependence can mitigate their celebrity addiction. BioMed Central 2023-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10619286/ /pubmed/37908023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01405-x Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Social anxiety and celebrity worship: the mediating effects of mobile phone dependence and moderating effects of family socioeconomic status
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title_full Social anxiety and celebrity worship: the mediating effects of mobile phone dependence and moderating effects of family socioeconomic status
title_fullStr Social anxiety and celebrity worship: the mediating effects of mobile phone dependence and moderating effects of family socioeconomic status
title_full_unstemmed Social anxiety and celebrity worship: the mediating effects of mobile phone dependence and moderating effects of family socioeconomic status
title_short Social anxiety and celebrity worship: the mediating effects of mobile phone dependence and moderating effects of family socioeconomic status
title_sort social anxiety and celebrity worship: the mediating effects of mobile phone dependence and moderating effects of family socioeconomic status
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10619286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37908023
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01405-x
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