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Celebrity worship is an extreme feeling of attachment to a celebrity.
Celebrity worship has been criticized for pathologizing fans of celebrities.
What Does This Model Claim?
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Subsequent studies have found support for this model.
Meanwhile, the intense-personal and borderline-pathological levels of celebrity worship has been found to be related toobsessive-compulsivebehaviors.
Surprisingly, the scale had only been administered to general populations prior to this investigation.
The study found that not all fans were celebrity worshippers.
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