Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond
Created: January 06, 2015
Last Modified: January 03, 2025 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond
Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC
This script implements the Celebrity Attitude Scale by Maltby et al (2006).
Maltby, J., Day, L., McCutcheon, L.E., Houran, J. & Ashe, D. (2006). Extreme celebrity worship, fantasy proneness and dissociation: Developing the measurement and understanding of celebrity worship within a clinical personality context. Personality and Individual Differences, 40, 273-283
4 minutes
Participants answer 34 questions (+2 additional questions) about their attitude towards a self-selected celebrity.
The questions cover three dimensions of celebrity worship: • Entertainment-Social: celebrity worship/attraction due to perceived entertainment and social value aspects of the celebrity • Intense-Personal: celebrity worship that reflects intense/compulsive devotion and personal reactions to the celebrity • Borderline-Pathological:celebrity worship that involves uncontrollable social-pathological behaviors, attitudes and fantasies regarding scenarios involving their favourite celebrity
The questions load on the three subscales as follows:
Entertainment-Social 17 + 31 + 23 + 13 + 19 + 29 +5
Intense-Personal 1 + 8 + 11 + 2 + 33 + 18 + 24 + 12 + 14 + 16 + 28 + 6 + 3
Borderline-Pathological 4 + 22 + 25 + 15 + 20 + 7
The rest of the items can be considered as filler items
File Name: celebrityattitudescale_summary*.iqdat
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| inquisit.version | Inquisit version number |
| computer.platform | Device platform: win | mac |ios | android |
| computer.touch | 0 = device has no touchscreen capabilities; 1 = device has touchscreen capabilities |
| computer.hasKeyboard | 0 = no external keyboard detected; 1 = external keyboard detected |
| startDate | Date the session was run |
| startTime | Time the session was run |
| subjectId | Participant ID |
| groupId | Group number |
| sessionId | Session number |
| elapsedTime | Session duration in ms |
| completed | 0 = Test was not completed 1 = Test was completed |
Subscalescores: Norms Based On Means And Standard Deviations Published By Maltby Et Al, 2006, P. 278 (No Gender Differences Found). |
|
| entertainmentSocial | Entertainment-Social score (Range: 7-35) |
| zScoreES | Z-score; based on Mean = 24.48, std = 9.5 |
| pScoreES | Percentile |
| intensePersonal | Intense-Personal score (Range: 13-65) |
| zScoreIP | Z score: based on Mean = 17.86, std = 6.5 |
| pIP | Percentile |
| borderlinePathological | Borderline-Pathological score (Range: 6-30) |
| zScoreBP | Based on Mean = 11.34, std = 3.4 |
| pScoreBP | Percentile |
File Name: celebrityattitudescale.iqdat
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| date | Date the session was run |
| time | Time the session was run |
| subject | Participant ID |
| group | Group number |
| session | Session number |
| build | Inquisit version number |
| q*_response | Response given (in assigned values) strongly agree = 5 strongly disagree = 1 |
| q*_latency | How much time (in ms) the participant spent on the surveyPage with this particular question (the last time this particular surveyPage was visited) |