dc.contributor.author |
McCutcheon, LE |
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dc.contributor.author |
Wong, M |
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dc.contributor.author |
Black, J |
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dc.contributor.author |
Maynard, D |
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dc.contributor.author |
Frey, Rosemary |
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dc.contributor.author |
Rich, G |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2015-01-16T03:24:53Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2014-12 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
North American Journal of Psychology, 2014, 16 (3), pp. 519 - 530 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1527-7143 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/24152 |
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dc.description.abstract |
We administered the Consideration of Future Consequences Scale (CFC), a brief version of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS), the Brief Sensation Seeking Scale (BSSS) and the Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS) to 263 university students from the United States, Barbados, Jamaica and New Zealand to see how well scores on the first three scales would predict scores on the latter. In our first regression model we found that students from outside the US scored higher than the US sample, and that only BIS total scores predicted CAS total scores with other variables held constant. However, in the second model high scores on subscales of the BIS, BSSS, and CFC predicted high scores on the CAS Borderline Pathological subscale. As expected, our second model had stronger predictive power than our first model. These findings suggest that persons who have strong “irresponsible” attachments to their favorite celebrity are more likely than low scorers to have difficulty paying attention, tend to be disinhibited and tend to focus on immediate concerns rather than the future. Implications of these findings were discussed. |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
North American Journal of Psychology |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
Does “Irresponsibility” Predict the Addictive Level of Celebrity Worship? |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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pubs.issue |
3 |
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pubs.begin-page |
519 |
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pubs.volume |
16 |
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pubs.author-url |
http://najp.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Vol.-16-Issue-3.pdf |
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pubs.end-page |
530 |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
461088 |
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pubs.org-id |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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pubs.org-id |
Nursing |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2014-11-17 |
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