Abstract
This study examines how adolescents' involvement with entertainment celebrities mediates media effects on personal values and subjective wellbeing. A survey of 621 adolescents aged from 11 to 18 years old in Singapore showed that the three aspects of adolescents' involvement with celebrities- entertainment-social values, intense-personal feelings, and borderline- pathological tendencies-were associated with adolescents' media consumption, with the association between intense-personal feelings and media consumption a reciprocal one. The three aspects were directly or indirectly associated with the adolescents' materialistic values, self-esteem, and life satisfaction. © 2009 AEJMC.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 23-44 |
| Journal | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2009 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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