The disadvantages of worshipping celebrities
Behavior can improve people's self-confidence and self-identity to a certain extent. In an idolized relationship, this kind of unilateral dedication can make people feel comfortable, calm and healthy. But if we continue to pay unilaterally, it is very likely that idolized people will become sick. This newspaper comprehensively reports the latest research in the United States, which shows that moderate worship of celebrities is good for health, because this kind of worship can improve people's self-confidence and self-identity to a certain extent. However, experts also pointed out that excessive idolization will only lead people to pathological extremes. Sheila Gabriel, a psychologist at new york State University in Buffalo, USA, conducted three studies on celebrity worship. The main goal of this study is whether the worship of celebrities will affect the self-confidence of admirers. Ms Gabriel said that as early as seven or eight years ago, when Michael Jackson was tried for pedophilia, many Jackson fans ran to court to support him. At that time, she began to think: What drives fans to do this? What can these behaviors bring to themselves? According to gabriel, one possible explanation is that ordinary people can get the pleasure of integrating into celebrity life through idolize and celebrities. Crazy crush on celebrities can also bring unique satisfaction to fans. Idolization can improve his self-confidence. To test his hypothesis, Gabriel and other researchers conducted an experiment together. She recruited 348 college students as volunteers, and15 of them admitted that they were crazy about celebrities. Gabriel asked all students to fill out a questionnaire about personal confidence, which contained 1 1 questions. After receiving the questionnaire, she and other researchers rated the volunteers according to the bottom line of confidence shown in the questionnaire. Then, she asked each volunteer to spend five minutes writing an article about their favorite celebrity, in order to open their hearts to worship complex. Finally, the researchers sent them the same questionnaire again and asked them to fill it out again to reassess their self-confidence. As a result, the researchers found that after writing an article about the stars they admired, volunteers who scored very low on the self-confidence scale scored much higher when they did the same questionnaire again, almost approaching the level of volunteers who scored very high at the beginning. Gabriel said: "Because people have established some emotional connection with their favorite celebrities in their hearts, they can absorb some characteristics of celebrities and feel better when they think of that celebrity." "This is what these people can't get in real relationships, because they are afraid of being rejected and deliberately keep their distance from others. Gabrielle pointed out that this research result does not blindly admit the role of celebrity worship in maintaining psychological stability, that is, it does not mean that people need idolization to improve their self-confidence. She said that everything is enough, too much is too late. Some people hinder celebrity life or have obsessive-compulsive disorder because of idolization, which shows the disadvantages of excessive idolization. It is found that worshipping celebrities will reduce a person's self-confidence, because the endless yearning for and pursuit of a lifestyle beyond his own life reality may eventually lead to a feeling of being out of tune with his surroundings, and even doubt his own value and feel that his ability is too poor. Others will suffer from "celebrity worship syndrome", the symptom of which is that idol worship makes them completely unable to extricate themselves, just like alcoholics and drug addicts are addicted to alcohol or drugs.