Absorbtion Addiction Model

Question 1

Absorption addiction model

Answer 1

Link levels of parasocial relationships with poor psychological health and deficiencies in there life e.g having low self esteem

Personal crisis can trigger someone to move from ES to more intense in involvement as it allows them to escape from reality and gives sense of fulfilment

Question 2

What are the two components ?

Answer 2

Absorption and addiction

Question 3

Absorption

Answer 3

Induvidual focuses attention on celebrity rather than own life

Gives a sense of identity

Question 4

Addiction

Answer 4

Obsession become simmiler to physiological addiction to a substance

Induvidual will need increase doses to feel satisfaction

Leads to more extremes behviours and delusional thinking

Question 5

RTS absorption addiction model

Answer 5

Studied adolescents aged 14-16 years

Found females with poor body image formed intense parasocial relatiship with female celebrity body shape they admired

Supports exsistance of parasocial relatiships and idea of absorption addiction model

That poor mental health can predict level of parasocial relatiships

Increasing validity of absorbtion model as explanation of parasocial relationships

Question 6

Research on parasocial relationships

Answer 6

Based on correlational research where cause and effect between poor psychological health and level of parasocial relatiships

Could be that borderline pathalogcial parasocial has caused poor psychological health rather than the other way around

Lowers internal validity of absorption addiction model in explaining levels of parasocial relationships