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The excessive celebrity worship behavior questionnaire: Chinese scale development and validation.
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- Gender difference in the relationship between celebrity worship and Chinese adolescents' binge eating: the chain mediating role of desire for fame and self-control.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Early Maladaptive Schemas and Celebrity Worship: The Mediating Role of Sense of Coherence and Difficulty in Emotion Regulation.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2026Article
- Why do we fall in love with idols: a qualitative study on motivational changes in the process of idol worship among Chinese adolescents and young adults.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- When fandom becomes a problem: Development of the Problematic Celebrity Fanship Scale using a representative adult sample.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Online shopping motivations and behavioral heterogeneity of digital nomads in livestream e-commerce: the moderating role of celebrity worship.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo develop a scale to assess the excessive behavior of superfans in celebrity worship and to test its reliability and validity in China.
methodsThe scale was developed based on the netnography and interviews of celebrity fans and the existing problematic Internet usage scales. Sample 1 (n = 465) was used for exploratory factor analysis, and Sample 2 (n = 804) was used for confirmatory factor analysis, reliability test, criterion validity, and discriminative validity test.
resultsThere were 36 items in the final scale, including nine factors: impaired social functioning, replacement of real to virtual social relationships, sleep and eating problems, withdrawal, mood alteration, salience, excessive buying, increased craving, and escape from real life. The factor loadings ranged from 0.565 to 0.803. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the scale was well structured. The reliability of the scale and each factor were satisfactory. The scale showed good discriminant validity in reflecting celebrity worship behavior. In terms of scores, mood alteration was the highest, excessive buying was the lowest, and there were certain gender and age differences.
conclusionThis study initially identified the main characteristics of excessive celebrity worship behavior among young fans on social media. The developed Chinese scale has good reliability and validity and can be used as a measurement tool.
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