A Descriptive Study of Personality on Female Young Adult Fans with Celebrity Worship Towards K-Pop Boy-band
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220404.263How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Celebrity worship; young adult; personality; PID-5
- Abstract
Korean culture has created a new trend among Indonesians in terms of in terms of music. K-Pop boyband became so popular among female teenager and young adults. The emotional connection between fans and their idol in K-Pop boy band is called parasocial relationship, a specific form of celebrity worship. This kind of idolization is common among female teenagers but there is some female young adult who still idolize their favourite celebrity. Celebrity worship among young adults is somehow related to personality. Considering the developmental tasks that young adult have to fulfil, their personality traits needs to be examined for further understanding about this phenomenon and see if there is any problem with young adult when experiencing celebrity worship. This study aims to give a description of personality profile on female young adult who experienced celebrity worship. This study used a descriptive quantitative method on 120 participants (Mage = 20,77 years, σ = 2,02). Participants will be screened first using Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS) based on 3 categories in celebrity worship and then each celebrity worship group personality will be measured using Personality Inventory for DSM – 5 (PID – 5). The result shows that each group of celebrity worship have a high score on negative affect domain and there is a significant difference of personality between entertainment social and borderline pathological.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
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TY - CONF AU - Vannessa Videlia Yugiputri AU - Magdalena S. Halim PY - 2022 DA - 2022/04/21 TI - A Descriptive Study of Personality on Female Young Adult Fans with Celebrity Worship Towards K-Pop Boy-band BT - Proceedings of the 3rd Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1628 EP - 1632 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220404.263 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220404.263 ID - Yugiputri2022 ER -