When fandom becomes a problem: Development of the Problematic Celebrity Fanship Scale using a representative adult sample.

BMC Psychol · 2026 · PMC12964916 · PMID 41634785

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Age showed a marginally significant association with an MLR estimator ( β = −0.06, p = 0.06) and a very weak association with a WLSMV estimator ( β = −0.17, p < 0.001), suggesting that problematic celebrity fanship may decrease with age.

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