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Celebrity worship: friend or foe of mental health? Qualitative evidence from Ghanaian adolescents
International Journal of Adolescence and YouthIn an era where celebrity influence shapes the lives of young people worldwide, understanding its impact on adolescents has never been more critical. This study explores the growing phenomenon of celebrity worship among Ghanaian adolescents by employing ...
Anthony Kwame Morgan +4 more
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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How football fans perceive sports heroes – The case of Israel
Physical Culture and Sport: Studies and Research, 2021 Background: Hero-making and hero-worship are common in human society. Yet despite the universal appeal of heroes, the features attributed to these figures and the attitudes toward them change depending upon the circumstances.
Levental Orr, Nudelman Shira Ben-Amram
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Tazkiya Journal of Psychology, 2019 Saat remaja melalui tahapan perkembangannya terdapat perilaku mengidolakan artis yang menarik untuk diteliti, khususnya tentang pengaruhnya terhadap tugas perkembangan remaja, yaitu pembentukan self esteem. Penelitian kuantitatif dengan analisis berganda
Naqiyah Maryam, Mulia Sari Dewi
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’The Book of Stars’: Understanding a Consumer’s Fan Relationship with a Film Actress Through a Narrative Transportation Approach [PDF]
, 2010 Although consumers have always been fascinated by the works and private lives of film stars, scant attention has been paid as to how the relationship between fans and film actors expresses itself in everyday consumer behaviour.
Whelan, Susan, Wohlfeil, Markus
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Bound by blood and bloodshed: Sibling ties and participation in genocidal violence
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Focusing on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, we examine how sibling relationships—one of the most salient familial bonds—influence individual engagement in violence during mass atrocity. Drawing on an adaptation of differential association and social learning theories for contexts of mass atrocity, we analyze a novel dataset linking over 300,000 ...
Jack G. R. Wippell +3 more
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Potential Predictors that Influence Women to Undergo Cosmetic Surgery [PDF]
, 2017 There may be relationships among collectivism, self-esteem, and religiousness in relation to individual acceptance of cosmetic surgery. This present study hypothesized that both self-esteem and religiousness would be negatively correlated with individual
Han, Eun Jin
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 2018 The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between people’s attraction to celebrities and their interpersonal trust and attachment style. Previous research suggests that individuals with different attachment styles are differentially attracted
Brian Collisson +4 more
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