ความสัมพันธ์ทางสังคมกึ่งความจริงระหว่างผู้ชมกับตัวแสดงในละครโทรทัศน์ไทย / นันทิพา วารีวะนิช = The parasocial relationship between audience and T.V. drama character / Nuntipa Wareewanich
The objectives of the study were to describe the relationship between the TV drama audiences and TV drama characters. The study employed various concepts such as parasocial relationship, image, fantasy theme and social judgement theory. The qualitative methods were used thirty key informants and one psychologist were selected. The results were following : 1. The parasocial relationship between audience and TV drama character was based on the effective relationship to the soap opera character. 2. The audiences had positive relationship with the soap opera and TV drama character whom they liked and had negative relationship with whom they disliked. 3. The TV drama character 's image effected the audience ‘s behavior - mental, verbal and manner. 4. The maintenance and the change of the parasocial relationship depended on TV drama character’s image and information. 5. The disappearance of the TV drama character was the significant factor of the discontinuous parasocial relationship.
