
Frontiers in Psychology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 15
Опубликована: Дек. 24, 2024
The attractiveness of bad boys can be seen as a cultural phenomenon that found in different areas society and art. In the media, too, boy fulfills social expectations terms masculinity is often portrayed dominant, violent, hard, unemotional aggressive. Women may feel attracted to this male dominance under certain conditions. order investigate field media psychology, study examined women’s personality predictor romantic parasocial relationships (RPSR) with from movies or series, well feelings experiences associated such relationships. an online questionnaire, 47 women were asked about specific traits, their RPSR favorite boy, perceived egocentric RPSR. Both love style ludus, which describes unattached playful love, sensation seeking, encompasses woman’s inclination towards new adventures, emerge predictors boy. Furthermore, it was goes along her retrospective imaginative involvement sense power. findings show parallels psychology explain real Due its correlative design, should first step exploration media-psychological phenomenon, will hopefully followed by further studies stricter causality logic.
Язык: Английский