Horváth Rita, Watson David C, McCutcheon Lynn, Budiarto Yohanes, Urbán Róbert, Demetrovics Zsolt, Dewi Fransisca Iriani Roesmala, Shabahang Reza, Chirani Benyamin Mokhtari, Williams Joshua L, Serrano Carlota Cruces, McCarley Nancy G, Roberts Jonathan E, Aruguete Mara S, Griffith James D, Edman Jeanne, Green Thomas, Huynh Ho Phi, Browne Blaine L, Jurs Bethany, Flint Emilia, Bernstein Michael J, Hwang Hyeyeon, Reyes Marc Eric S, Zsila Ágnes
Doctoral School of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
PLoS One. 2025 Sep 11;20(9):e0331696. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0331696. eCollection 2025.
Celebrity worship, conceptualized as an obsessive admiration of celebrities, has generated considerable research interest over the past two decades. Admiration towards a favorite celebrity has been commonly assessed by the 23-item Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS). Recently, a 7-item short version (CAS-7) was developed on a representative sample of Hungarian adults. This study aimed to provide further evidence for the validity and reliability of the CAS-7 measure by extending the investigation of its factor structure to other cultures and populations.
Data from 4,353 participants (64.4% women, Mage = 28.22 years, SD = 11.80, age range: 14-93 years) across five countries (Canada, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, US) were used, which was collected through online questionnaires.
Consistent with previous findings, the bifactor structure with celebrity worship as a general factor and entertainment-social and intense-pathological specific factors showed the best fit in all samples. Reliability indices for the celebrity worship general factor were good.
The present findings confirmed the reliability and the consistency of the factor structure of the CAS-7 across different samples, providing further evidence for the applicability of the CAS-7 in different cultures.
名人崇拜被概念化为对名人的过度仰慕，在过去二十年中引发了相当多的研究兴趣。对喜爱名人的仰慕通常通过23项名人态度量表（CAS）进行评估。最近，在匈牙利成年人的代表性样本上开发了一个7项简短版本（CAS-7）。本研究旨在通过将其因子结构的调查扩展到其他文化和人群，为CAS-7测量的有效性和可靠性提供进一步证据。
使用了来自五个国家（加拿大、匈牙利、印度尼西亚、伊朗、美国）的4353名参与者（64.4%为女性，年龄中位数=28.22岁，标准差=11.80，年龄范围：14-93岁）的数据，这些数据通过在线问卷收集。
与先前的研究结果一致，以名人崇拜为一般因子、娱乐社交和强烈病态为特定因子的双因子结构在所有样本中显示出最佳拟合。名人崇拜一般因子的可靠性指标良好。
本研究结果证实了CAS-7因子结构在不同样本中的可靠性和一致性，为CAS-7在不同文化中的适用性提供了进一步证据。
