Maltby John, Giles David C, Barber Louise, McCutcheon Lynn E
School of Psychology, University of Leicester, UK.
Br J Health Psychol. 2005 Feb;10(Pt 1):17-32. doi: 10.1348/135910704X15257.
The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between celebrity worship and body image within the theoretical perspective of intense para-social relationships with celebrities.
Correlation and multiple regression analyses were used to examine the relationships between celebrity worship and body image.
Three samples, 229 (102 males and 127 females) adolescents, 183 (88 males and 95 females) full-time university undergraduate students, and 289 (126 males and 163 females) adults were administered an amended version of the Celebrity Attitude Scale, the Attention to Body Shape Scale, and the Body Shape Questionnaire-Revised.
Significant relationships were found between attitudes toward celebrities and body image only among female adolescents. Multiple regression analyses suggested that Intense-personal celebrity worship accounted for unique variance in scores in body image.
Findings suggest that in female adolescents, there is an interaction between Intense-personal celebrity worship and body image between the ages of 14 and 16 years, and some tentative evidence has been found to suggest that this relationship disappears at the onset of adulthood, 17 to 20 years. Results are consistent with those authors who stress the importance of the formation of para-social relationships with media figures, and suggest that para-social relationships with celebrities perceived as having a good body shape may lead to a poor body image in female adolescents.
本研究旨在从与名人建立强烈准社会关系的理论视角出发，探讨名人崇拜与身体意象之间的关系。
采用相关性分析和多元回归分析来检验名人崇拜与身体意象之间的关系。
对三个样本进行了施测，分别是229名（102名男性和127名女性）青少年、183名（88名男性和95名女性）全日制大学本科生以及289名（126名男性和163名女性）成年人，施测内容包括修订版的《名人态度量表》《关注身体形状量表》以及《身体形状问卷修订版》。
仅在女性青少年中发现了对名人的态度与身体意象之间存在显著关系。多元回归分析表明，强烈的个人名人崇拜在身体意象得分中占独特方差。
研究结果表明，在14至16岁的女性青少年中，强烈的个人名人崇拜与身体意象之间存在相互作用，并且已发现一些初步证据表明这种关系在17至20岁成年期开始时消失。研究结果与那些强调与媒体人物建立准社会关系重要性的作者一致，并表明与被认为身材良好的名人建立准社会关系可能会导致女性青少年身体意象不佳。
