___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CELEBRITY ATTITUDE SCALE ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 01-06-2015 last updated: 02-17-2022 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 02-17-2022 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements the Celebrity Attitude Scale as described in: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Participants answer 34 questions (+2 additional questions) about their attitude towards a self-selected celebrity. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes appr. 4 minutes to complete ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA FILE INFORMATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The default data stored in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'celebrityattitudescale.iqdat' date, time: date and time script was run with the current group/subjectnumber subject, group, session: with the current subject/groupnumber/session id build: the Inquisit build 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) (2) Summary data file: 'celebrityattitudescale_summary*.iqdat' (a separate file for each participant) inquisit.version: Inquisit version run computer.platform: the platform the script was run on (win/mac/ios/android) startdate: date script was run starttime: time script was started subjectid: assigned subject id number groupid: assigned group id number sessionid: assigned session id number elapsedtime: time it took to run script (in ms); measured from onset to offset of script completed: 0 = script was not completed (prematurely aborted); 1 = script was completed (all conditions run) ///SubscaleScores: Norms based on means and standard deviations published by Maltby et al, 2006, p. 278 (no gender differences found). IntensePersonal z_score_IP: based on Mean = 17.86, std = 6.5 p_IP: EntertainmentSocial z_score_ES based on Mean = 24.48, std = 9.5 p_score_ES BorderlinePathological z_score_BP based on Mean = 11.34, std = 3.4 p_score_BP and individual scores for all 36 questions ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SCORING ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Intense personal 1+ 8 + 11 + 2 + 33 + 18 + 24 + 12 + 14 + 16 + 28 +6 + 3 Entertainment Social 17+ 31 + 23 + 13 + 19+ 29 +5 Borderline Pathological 4 + 22 + 25 + 15 + 20 + 7 The rest of the items can be considered as filler items