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Table 2 Partial correlations among celebrity worship and cognitive skills (N = 1763)

From: Celebrity worship and cognitive skills revisited: applying Cattell’s two-factor theory of intelligence in a cross-sectional study

 

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3

4

5

6

1. CAS Total

(range: 23–115)

–

     

2. CAS Entertainment–Social subscale (range: 10–50)

0.94***

–

    

3. CAS Intense–Personal subscale

(range: 9–45)

0.90***

0.73***

–

   

4. CAS Borderline–Pathological subscale (range: 4–20)

0.77***

0.64***

0.61***

–

  

5. VOCAB (range: 0–24)

 − 0.07**

 − 0.04

 − 0.10***

 − 0.07**

–

 

6. SDST (range: 0–30)

 − 0.08**

 − 0.07*

 − 0.07**

 − 0.06*

0.10***

–

7. Cognitive tests (z-score)

 − 0.10***

 − 0.07**

 − 0.11***

 − 0.09**

0.75***

0.74***

  1. ***p < 0.001; **p < 0.01; *p < 0.05
  2. CAS celebrity attitude scale, VOCAB vocabulary test, SDST short digit symbol test
  3. The variable “cognitive tests” reflect a composite z-score combined from the z-scores of VOCAB and SDST
  4. Control variables were gender, age, educational level, current family income, current and childhood material wealth and self-esteem
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BMC Psychology

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