I Want to Be You(r Friend): An Investigation of the Effects of Gendered Personality Traits on Engagement with Different <i>Modern Family</i> Characters

The extant research focused on gender understood as a single item to explain wishful identification and parasocial relationships with TV characters. This study focused on gendered personality traits and how they contribute to wishful identification, parasocial relationships with (non-)stereotypical...

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Main Authors: Bartosz G. Żerebecki, Esther van der Vliet, Julia Kneer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-06-01
Series:Journalism and Media
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2673-5172/3/2/26