Psychological Development and Education ›› 2016, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (6): 666-674.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2016.06.04

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Celebrity Worship and Its Relationship with Aspirations and Subjective Well-being of Junior Middle School Students: The Moderating Effect of Gender

SHI Jiahui1,2, ZHANG Mengyuan1, YANG Ying1, FENG Ji3, KOU Yu1   

  1. 1. Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. Department of Psychology, Learning and Cognitive Key Lab, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048;
    3. Chaoyang Institute for Educational Research, Beijing 100029
  • Online:2016-11-15 Published:2016-11-15

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Abstract: The present study used questionnaires to investigate 3587 junior middle school students about the differences of celebrity worship differences between gender and grade. This study also explored the relationships between celebrity worship and extrinsic/intrinsic aspirations and subjective well-being, as well as the moderating effect of gender on the associations. The results are as follows, (1) Girls' celebrity worship level were much higher than boys'. Besides, there were more girls than boys in the group of high celebrity worship. Neither the level of celebrity worship nor the numbers of students in any level group was found significantly different between the grades. (2) Extrinsic aspirations, but not the intrinsic aspirations, positively predicted celebrity worship. Gender moderated the relationship between the extrinsic aspirations and celebrity worship. Further analysis indicated that extrinsic aspirations had more effect on girls than boys. (3) Because of the moderating effect, celebrity worship only negatively predicted girls' subjective well-being, while none significant association was observed among boys.

Key words: celebrity worship, extrinsic/intrinsic aspirations, subjective well-being, gender, junior middle school students

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  • B844

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