A Correlational Study of Adolescent Romantic Parasocial Attachment and Academic Motivation

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10.2991/assehr.k.220704.046How to use a DOI?

Keywords

adolescent romantic parasocial attachment; academic motivation; personality; questionnaire

Abstract

Nowadays, with the popularization of mass media, parasocial romantic attachment is turning out to be a prevalent phenomenon among teenagers. It is necessary to study the relationship between adolescent romantic parasocial attachment and academic motivation. Previous studies compared the difference between parasocial contact and social contact on prejudice. This study aims to further compare them in the case of romance. Besides, studies related to parasocial romantic attachment have mainly focused on its effects on real-life romance, so this study investigated its potential effect on academic motivation. This study used a questionnaire to investigate whether there is a positive correlation between the strength of adolescent romantic parasocial attachment and the intensity of academic motivation. We concluded that there is evidence that the strength of adolescent romantic parasocial attachment and the intensity of academic motivation are positively correlated. However, this might happen by chance, because the results were not statistically significant.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhuowen Wu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/11
TI  - A Correlational Study of Adolescent Romantic Parasocial Attachment and Academic Motivation
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 254
EP  - 259
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220704.046
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220704.046
ID  - Wu2022
ER  -