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RELATIONSHIPS PT 3 - Coggle Diagram
RELATIONSHIPS PT 3
PARASOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
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entertainment social
general liking towards the person, watch their films because you like them as an actor
intense personal
start to absorb that person that person into your life, becomes an addiction, everyday interaction
boarderline pathological
become completely obsessed with the person, sending letters or DMs everyday and interacting with them like they know them
- ABSORBTION ADDICTION MODEL
This suggests that people engage in paracoail relationships to compensate for personal defficites, use this person as a way to escape their personal struggles
Allows them to connect with the celebrity, lives through them - their achievements become their own achievements
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This is the idea that people with insecure resistant attachment are more likely to develop parasocial relationships - very clingy, seek close proximity to people but if they feel rejected they will push them away - fear of rejection is taken away, they can control every aspect of their relationship, they're in control, never have to worry about people leaving them or rejecting them
insecure avoidant are LEAST likely to develop a parasocial relationship, most independent so wouldn't want to engage in a relationship anyway
A03
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- explains why people have parasocial relationships
- Real life application, identify potential risks - stalker
cover both - STUDY looks at paracosial relationships in Mexico (collectivist) and Germany (individual) found that the rates of parasocial relationships were the same in both countries - ATTATCHMENT THEORY, disproves this theory because Germany tend to have higher insecure avoidant attatchments - and THREE STAGES, parasocial relationships are universal and that adds validity to the theory because it can be culturally applied
VIRTUAL RELATIONSHIPS
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THEORIES
- absence of queues - idea that virtual relationships fail to develop an emotional attatchment to people - remain quite disengaged (judgmental and harsh, being more likely to lie)
- absense of gating - this is the absence of barriers that would exist in a face to face relationship (shy, language barrier, stutter, something quite self conscious about but when your in a virtual relationship those insecurities dont matter) - more likely to disclose more about yourself, lead to you creating a more positive version of yourself - disclose very intensely very quickly BOOMAN BUST - BOOM is the initial blurt then fizzles out so communication starts to decrease, end of that virtual relationship
A03
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outdated, developed in the 70s - online dating, found easy to keep barriers in place through ID - people are more honest than back then - low temporal validity
practical application - because we've developed a large understanding of virtual relationships, we can make online dating a lot safer, online verification - report people etc