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- Title
Materialism and the Tendency to Worship Celebrities.
- Authors
Green, Thomas; Griffith, James; Aruguete, Mara S.; Edman, Jeanne; McCutcheon, Lynn E.
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine how interest in celebrities relates to materialistic values and envy. We administered the Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS), the nine-item version of the Material Values Scale (MVS), and a five-item envy scale to 248 participants from four institutions of higher learning. We hypothesized that those who tended to value materialism would also tend to worship celebrities, and that this would be particularly true for those whose favorite celebrity was associated with popular culture rather than humanitarian service. Results confirmed the first hypothesis but not the second. Those who scored high on the Borderline Pathological subscale of the CAS tended to score high on materialistic values and envy. Envy was positively correlated with MVS scores. The discussion focused on the difficulty of obtaining a meaningful sample of persons who favor humanitarian celebrities, and the dysfunctional similarities between materialists and those who score high on CAS - Borderline Pathological.
- Subjects
MATERIALISM; CELEBRITIES in popular culture; INTELLECTUAL life; HUMANITARIAN assistance
- Publication
North American Journal of Psychology, 2014, Vol 16, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
1527-7143
- Publication type
Article