Self-Esteem and Celebrity Worship on Late Adolescents
DOI:
Abstract Views:
6 times
PDF-Full Text Downloads:
4 times
Abstract
Individuals who have their favourite celebrity are commonly found in our society. To some extent, to have a favourite celebrity is considered normal. However, this can become abnormal if the individual is obsessed with his/her favourite celebrity. This phenomenon is called celebrity worship. Celebrity worship consists of three levels: entertainment-social (ES), intense-personal (IP), and borderline-pathological (BP). This phenomenon can happen to an individual with unhealthy self-esteem, who lacks of social relationship in his or her life. The aim of this study was to find out the relationship between self-esteem and each level of celebrity worship on late adolescents. College students (N=266) were chosen as samples of the study. Results reveal no significant correlation between self-esteem and entertainment-social (ES) celebrity worship. It also showed that there was no significant correlation between self-esteem and intense-personal (IP) celebrity worship. Finally, there was negative correlation between self-esteem and borderline- pathological (BP) celebrity worship (r= - ,138).
Dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, tidak jarang dijumpai individu yang memiliki selebriti favorit yang tentunya merupakan suatu hal yang wajar. Namun, keadaan ini akan menjadi tidak wajar bila individu tersebut terobsesi dengan selebriti favoritnya. Fenomena ini disebut sebagai pemujaan selebriti (celebrity worship). Pemujaan selebriti terdiri atas tiga tingkatan, yaitu entertainment- social (ES), intense-personal (IP), dan borderline-pathological (BP). Individu dengan self-esteem yang tidak sehat dapat memuja selebriti favoritnya karena kurangnya relasi sosial yang terjalin di dunia nyata. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui hubungan antara harga diri (self-esteem) dan ketiga tingkat pemujaan selebriti pada remaja akhir. Sampel pada penelitian ini adalah 266 mahasiswa. Hasil menunjukkan tidak ada hubungan yang signifikan antara harga diri dan pemujaan selebriti tingkat ES dan tingkat IP. Namun, terdapat korelasi negatif antara harga diri dan pemujaan selebriti tingkat BP (r= - .138).
Downloads
References
Derrick, J. L., Gabriel, S., & Tippin, B. (2008).Parasocial relationships and self-discrepancies: Faux relationships have benefits for low self-esteem individuals. Personal Relationships, 15(2), 261-280. Retrieved from http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?hl=en&q=http://www.researchgate.net/publication/227812964_Parasocial_relationships_and_selfdiscrepancies_Faux_relationships_have_benefits_for_low_selfesteem_individuals/file/9fcfd50eb37dec7c7b.pdf&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm3D59DyE90eDt5cnWmiMhfpni1bYQ&oi=scholarr
Donnelly, J. W., Eburne, N., & Kittleson, M. (2000). Mental health: Dimensions of self-esteem & emotional well-being. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Heatherton, T. F., & Wyland, C. L. (2003). Assessing self-esteem. In S. J. Lopez & C. R. Snyder (Eds.), Positive psychological assessment: A handbook of models and measures(pp. 219-233). Washington, DC: APA.
Hurlock, E. B. (2003). Psikologi perkembangan: Suatu pendekatan sepanjang rentang kehidupan, Edisi Kelima (Istiwidayanti & Soedjarwo, Pengalih bahasa). Jakarta: Penerbit Erlangga.
Hyman, M. R., & Sierra, J. J. (2007). Idolizing Sports Celebrities: A Gateway to Psychopathology? Retrieved from business.nmsu.edu/~mhyman/M454./Idolizing _
Sports_Celebrities.doc
Kaplan, R. M., & Saccuzzo, D. P. (2012). Psychological testing: Principles, applications, and issues, Eighth Edition. Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning.
Maltby, J., & Day, L. (2011). Celebrity worship and incidence of elective cosmetic surgery: Evidence of a link among young adults. Journal of Adolescent Health, 49(5), 483-489. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22018562 Marcia, J. E. (1980). Identity in adolescence. In J. Adelson (Ed.), Handbook of adolescent psychology (pp. 159-187). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
McCutcheon, L. E., Lange, R., & Houran, J. (2002). Conceptualization and measurement of celebrity worship. British Journal of Psychology, 93(1), 67-87. Retrieved from http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?hl=en&q=http://www.researchgate.net/publication/11522051_Conceptualization_and_measurement_of_celebrity_worship/file/9fcfd508054d515472.pdf&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm0Z-NavXyjWiK_UMW0ACYOciRYWMQ&oi=scholarr
Mruk, C. J. (2006). Self-esteem research, theory, and practice: Toward a positive psychology of self-esteem, Third Edition. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
North, A. C., Sheridan, L., Maltby, J., & Gillett, R. (2007). Attributional style, self-esteem, and celebrity worship. Media Psychology, 9(2), 291-308. Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15213260701285975#.Ui66mT-kNfs
Orlofsky, J. L. (1977). Sex-role orientation, identity formation, and self-esteem in college men and women. Sex Roles, 3(6), 561-575. Retrieved from http://link.
springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00287839#
Plummer, D. (2005). Helping adolescents and adults to build self-esteem. Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Reeves, R. A., Baker, G. A., & Truluck, C. S. (2012). Celebrity worship, materialism, compulsive buying, and the empty self. Psychology and Marketing, 29(9), 674-679. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mar.20553/abstract
Sandhu, D., & Tung, S. (2006). Gender differences in adolescent identity formation. Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research, 21(1-2), 29-40. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.library.uq.edu. au/docview/89070683?accountid=14723
Santrock, J. W. (2002). Life-span development: Perkembangan masa hidup, Edisi Kelima, Jilid 2 (A. Chusairi & J. Damanik, Pengalih bahasa). Jakarta: Penerbit Erlangga.
Santrock, J. W. (2007). Remaja, Edisi Kesebelas, Jilid 1 (B. Widyasinta, Pengalih bahasa). Jakarta: Penerbit Erlangga.
Sheridan, L., North, A., Maltby, J., & Gillett, R. (2007). Celebrity worship, addiction and criminality. Psychology, Crime & Law, 13(6), 559-571. Retrieved from http://
www2.le.ac.uk/Members/rtg/pdf/CelebrityWorshipSheridan2007.pdf
Stever, G. S. (2011). Celebrity worship: Critiquing a construct. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 41(6), 1356-1370. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley. com/doi/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2011.00765.x/abstract?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false
Swami, V., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Mastor, K., Siran, F. H., Said, M. M. M., Jaafar, J., ... Pillai, S. K. (2011). Celebrity worship among university students in Malaysia. European Psychologist, 16(4), 334-342. Retrieved from http://psycontent.metapress.com/content/0820l64744556035/?genre=article&id=ddo%3a10.1027%2f1016-9040%2fa000029
Vaus, D. D. (2002). Surveys in social research, Fifth Edition. New South Wales: Allen & Unwin. Xiaozhong, H. (2006). Survey report on idol worship among children and young people. Chinese Education and Society, 39(1), 84-103. Retrieved from http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ738246
Yusuf, S. (2011). Psikologi perkembangan anak & remaja. Bandung: Remaja Rosdakarya.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Articles published in ANIMA are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. You are free to copy, transform, or redistribute articles for any lawful, non-commercial purpose in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to ANIMA and the original Author(s), link to the license, indicate if changes were made, and redistribute any derivative work under the same license.
Copyright on articles is retained by the respective Author(s), without restrictions. A non-exclusive license is granted to ANIMA to publish the article and identify itself as its original publisher, along with the commercial right to include the article in a hardcopy issue for sale to libraries and individuals.
By publishing in ANIMA, Author(s) grant any third party the right to use their article to the extent provided by the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
