09/08/2026
So, it has been studied...👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
"Findings reveal that individuals with high scores on celebrity-worship scales tend to display a number of psychosocial characteristics. For example, these individuals may harbor concerns about body image (particularly young adolescents), be more prone to cosmetic surgery, and have a personality style characterized by sensation-seeking, cognitive rigidity, identity diffusion, and poor interpersonal boundaries. Likewise, celebrity worshippers may exhibit narcissistic features, dissociation, addictive tendencies, stalking behavior, and compulsive buying. Studies also indicate that individuals with high levels of celebrity worship are more likely to have poorer mental health as well as clinical symptoms of depression, anxiety, and social dysfunction. Of note, no study to date has examined celebrity worshippers for bona fide Axis I and II psychiatric disorders. However, given that celebrity worship exists along a continuum, it appears that being on the high end of this continuum is likely to be associated with a number of potential psychological maladies." - [Source: “I’m Your Number One Fan”— A Clinical Look at Celebrity Worship
Randy A Sansone, Lori A Sansone |
PMCID: PMC3960781 PMID: 24653942
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3960781/ ]
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