Para social relationships

levels of parasocial relationships

By McCutchen

• Entertainment social

• intense personal

• borderline pathological

addiction-absorption model

McCutchen

absorption - intense involvement into someone’s life and interest in their job and daily activities.

addiction - behaviours escalate as get more involved, like drug addiction. can lead to trying to contact the celebrity or stalking.

attachment

Bowlby

poor attachments/relationships with the primary care giver leads to a poor internal working model and lead to bad relationships later in life.

Insecure resistant is most linked to parasocial relationships.

AO3 - supporting research

Maltby -

positive correlation between depression and anxiety and having parasocial relationships.

connection between parasocial relationships and mental health.

AO3 - limitation of research

much of the research is based on westernised cultures

then applied to the rest of the world and varying cultures.

takes an ethnocentric approach.

AO3 - limitation

creates a negative stigma around poor mental health.

ignores the fact that some can be positive.

only focuses on the influence of mental health and them.