using students from yorkshire (126 male 181 female) two surveys were complete
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celebrity attitude scale (CAS) and a questionnaire that measured aspects of mental health such as depression and anxiety
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finding that entertainment social individuals showed social dysfunction in their real relationships, and intense personal individuals correlated with high depression and anxiety rates
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suggests there may be a relationship between persons score on cas and overall mental health, perhaps obsessions with celebrities causing depression, or a result of it predicted by the model