Question

Over the years there have been many celebrities who died from substance overdoses (e.g Kurt Cobain, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jimi Hendrix, Micheal Jackson, Cory Monteith, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse, Heath Ledger)

Dose being a celebrity engender substance use? How could you answer this question empirically?

Answer 1

Celebrities have always had the edge to partying. There had been a lot of research in fame that has been associated with substance abuse or addiction. It has been found in one of the research that celebrities have been seen to be two times more likely than the non celebrities to be faced with problems of alcohol. Since, addiction could be referred to as a problem of equal opportunit, the fact that a person is famous would not be understood as the cause of addiction.

Though there are some of the fame components that make fame a risk factor for being addicted.

There has been a theory that states that there is a strong role played between personality type as well as the star status, Utah’s been stated that stars would be having greater extroverts and neurotic tendencies. Since the stars begin orotrsying the ideal self on the screen they may be making the individuals swing between emotional highs as well as lows that might be triggering a compulsive behavior.

Since the celebrations become more self conscious along with becoming more self destructive at the same time. There may be low self esteem along with high self consciousness that would be increasing the chance of abuse by a person.