The effect of attachment on the trajectory of celebrity worship: The mediating role of self-concept clarity

IF 3.5 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Personality and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2025.113169

Xiaohan Gong , Sicong Lin , Fangyuan Ding , Wenwen Zhao , Xi Hu , Depeng Wang , Gang Cheng

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Abstract

Giving rise to problems such as online violence, celebrity worship has become an important social issue in the Internet era, which urgently needs to be explored. This study aimed to explore the trajectory of celebrity worship and its mechanism. A sample of 662 Chinese college freshmen (535 female, M_age = 18.56 ± 1.75) was recruited to complete the questionnaire with a short-term longitudinal research design across four waves at intervals of one month. The results indicated that celebrity worship declined with a linear trajectory. Additionally, a mediation model was constructed to examine the effect of attachment styles on celebrity worship, as well as the mediating role of self-concept clarity. Insecure attachment styles increase the initial level of celebrity worship and accelerate the decline rate of celebrity worship by decreasing self-concept clarity. However, anxious attachment can also directly mitigate the decline rate of celebrity worship. This finding indicated that anxious attachment had a suppression effect on the decline rate of celebrity worship. This study confirmed the decline in the level of celebrity worship during the transitional period of college enrollment, as well as the complex roles played by attachment styles and self-concept clarity in this decline.

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Personality and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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8.50

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4.70%

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577

审稿时长

41 days

期刊介绍： Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.