Celebrity worship ranges from normal admiration to the psychopathological, and is best viewed as a continuum phenomenon (Sansone & Sansone, 2014). To further explain celebrity worship, McCutcheon et al. (2002) proposed the …show more content…
Intense absorption and addiction to these media figures may result to the development of abnormal parasocial relationships (Maltby, Houran & McCutcheon, 2003). One personality profile of celebrity worshippers suggest that people who score high on the CAS tend to show “poorer psychological well-being than non-worshippers” (Maltby, McCutcheon, Ashe, & Houran, 2001).
The present study attempts to identify if Filipino Fandom members’ celebrity attitude is that of worship and if a relationship exists between celebrity attitude and mental health. Moreover, the researchers explored the possibility that the more you worship celebrities, the poorer your mental health