Childhood celebrity, parental attachment, and adult adjustment: the young performers study.

@article{Rapport1998ChildhoodCP,
  title={Childhood celebrity, parental attachment, and adult adjustment: the young performers study.},
  author={Lisa J Rapport and Matthew Meleen},
  journal={Journal of personality assessment},
  year={1998},
  volume={70 3},
  pages={
          484-505
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:32219672}
}
The associations between celebrity, parental attachment, and adult adjustment were examined among 74 famous, former young performers in television and film and indicated that the quality of the parent-child relationship moderated the effects of celebrity on adult adjustment.
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