Public figures as role models of Serbian adolescents: Preferences and reasons
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There is no absolute agreement on public figures' effects on youth development.
However, authors warn that youth's growing interest in media, where idols
frequently appear, must have some impact on their identity formation and value
system. Our goal is to discover which role model types are preferred and to
identify potential new ones. We also investigated adolescents' reasons and
connected them with specific idol preferences. The sample included 1404
adolescents from primary and secondary schools in 5 Serbian towns. Idols are
classified according to a previously used classification: show business, sport,
science and art, politics, fiction. The reasons were codified as well: intelligence,
strong personality, humanity, good communication skills, desirable profession,
fame, physical appearance, social power, wealth, professional success. The
relationship between idol types and various reasons was tested by GLM
MANOVA and Logistic regression for each role model type with reaso...ns as
predictors. Entrepreneurs are new public figures that adolescents admire, while
youtubers and bloggers are new subcategories within show business. The effect
of the role model type is statistically significant (Wilks' Lambda=0.556, p<0.001)
and group differences are found in intelligence (F=10.585, p<0.001), physical
appearance (F=8.368, p<0.001), professional success (F=16.79, p<0.001) and
social power (F=23.831, p<0.001). Intelligence is dominantly attributed to
scientists and artists. Adolescents admire show business celebrities and
occasionally fictional characters for their physical appearance. Professional
success is associated with sports and social power with politics. Logistic
regression (χ²(10)=85.259, p<0.001) shows that actors and singers are perceived
as attractive but not professionally successful (negative beta coefficient).
Sportsmen are admired because of professional results and humanity while
beauty and intelligence are not their traits (χ²(10)=111.781, p<0.001). Intelligence is the only reason predicting the choice of scientists and artists (χ²(10)=27.026,
p<0.01), while politicians and rulers are seen as powerful but not successful
(χ²(10)=41.42, p<0.001). New role model categories obviously accompany new
media trends. Relations between idol preferences and associated reasons reveal
that adolescents attribute and value different characteristics in various role model
types.
Кључне речи:
adolescents / public figures / role models / reasonsИзвор:
Book of Abstracts, XXIII Scientific Conference Empirical Studies in Psychology, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia (March 24–26), 2017, 114-115Институција/група
Psihologija / PsychologyTY - CONF AU - Stepanović Ilić, Ivana AU - Blažanin, Barbara AU - Mojović, Kristina PY - 2017 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/5799 AB - There is no absolute agreement on public figures' effects on youth development. However, authors warn that youth's growing interest in media, where idols frequently appear, must have some impact on their identity formation and value system. Our goal is to discover which role model types are preferred and to identify potential new ones. We also investigated adolescents' reasons and connected them with specific idol preferences. The sample included 1404 adolescents from primary and secondary schools in 5 Serbian towns. Idols are classified according to a previously used classification: show business, sport, science and art, politics, fiction. The reasons were codified as well: intelligence, strong personality, humanity, good communication skills, desirable profession, fame, physical appearance, social power, wealth, professional success. The relationship between idol types and various reasons was tested by GLM MANOVA and Logistic regression for each role model type with reasons as predictors. Entrepreneurs are new public figures that adolescents admire, while youtubers and bloggers are new subcategories within show business. The effect of the role model type is statistically significant (Wilks' Lambda=0.556, p<0.001) and group differences are found in intelligence (F=10.585, p<0.001), physical appearance (F=8.368, p<0.001), professional success (F=16.79, p<0.001) and social power (F=23.831, p<0.001). Intelligence is dominantly attributed to scientists and artists. Adolescents admire show business celebrities and occasionally fictional characters for their physical appearance. Professional success is associated with sports and social power with politics. Logistic regression (χ²(10)=85.259, p<0.001) shows that actors and singers are perceived as attractive but not professionally successful (negative beta coefficient). Sportsmen are admired because of professional results and humanity while beauty and intelligence are not their traits (χ²(10)=111.781, p<0.001). Intelligence is the only reason predicting the choice of scientists and artists (χ²(10)=27.026, p<0.01), while politicians and rulers are seen as powerful but not successful (χ²(10)=41.42, p<0.001). New role model categories obviously accompany new media trends. Relations between idol preferences and associated reasons reveal that adolescents attribute and value different characteristics in various role model types. C3 - Book of Abstracts, XXIII Scientific Conference Empirical Studies in Psychology, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia (March 24–26) T1 - Public figures as role models of Serbian adolescents: Preferences and reasons EP - 115 SP - 114 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5799 ER -
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Stepanović Ilić, I., Blažanin, B.,& Mojović, K.. (2017). Public figures as role models of Serbian adolescents: Preferences and reasons. in Book of Abstracts, XXIII Scientific Conference Empirical Studies in Psychology, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia (March 24–26), 114-115. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5799
Stepanović Ilić I, Blažanin B, Mojović K. Public figures as role models of Serbian adolescents: Preferences and reasons. in Book of Abstracts, XXIII Scientific Conference Empirical Studies in Psychology, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia (March 24–26). 2017;:114-115. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5799 .
Stepanović Ilić, Ivana, Blažanin, Barbara, Mojović, Kristina, "Public figures as role models of Serbian adolescents: Preferences and reasons" in Book of Abstracts, XXIII Scientific Conference Empirical Studies in Psychology, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia (March 24–26) (2017):114-115, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5799 .