A nine-item Likert-type scale designed to measure the degree to which a person is interested in, cares about, and sympathizes with a character on a television program.
Rubin, Alan M., Elizabeth M. Perse, and Robert Powell (1985), “Loneliness, Parasocial Interaction, and Local Television News Viewing,” Human Communication Research, 12 (2), 155-180.
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