(1) Motivational, emotional, and behavioral correlates of fear of missing out | Andrew Przybylski - Academia.edu
(1) Motivational, emotional, and behavioral correlates of fear of missing out | Andrew Przybylski - Academia.edu
Social media utilities have made it easier than ever to know about the range of online or offline socialactivities one could be engaging. On the upside, these social resources provide a multitude of opportuni-tiesforinteraction;onthedownside, theyoftenbroadcast moreoptions thancanbepursued, givenprac-tical restrictions and limited time. This dual nature of social media has driven popular interest in theconcept of
Fear of Missing Out
– popularly referred to as FoMO. Defined as a pervasive apprehension thatothers might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent, FoMO is characterized by thedesire to stay continually connected with what others are doing. The present research presents threestudies conducted to advance an empirically based understanding of the fear of missing out phenome-non. The first study collected a diverse international sample of participants in order to create a robustindividual differences measure of FoMO, the
Fear of Missing Out scale
(FoMOs); this study is the first tooperationalize the construct. Study 2 recruited a nationally representative cohort to investigate howdemographic, motivational and well-being factors relate to FoMO. Study 3 examined the behavioraland emotional correlates of fear of missing out in a sample of young adults. Implications of the FoMOsmeasure and for the future study of FoMO are discussed.
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2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Social media utilities have made it easier than ever to know about the range of online or offline socialactivities one could be engaging. On the upside, these social resources provide a multitude of opportuni-tiesforinteraction;onthedownside, theyoftenbroadcast moreoptions thancanbepursued, givenprac-tical restrictions and limited time. This dual nature of social media has driven popular interest in theconcept of
Fear of Missing Out
– popularly referred to as FoMO. Defined as a pervasive apprehension thatothers might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent, FoMO is characterized by thedesire to stay continually connected with what others are doing. The present research presents threestudies conducted to advance an empirically based understanding of the fear of missing out phenome-non. The first study collected a diverse international sample of participants in order to create a robustindividual differences measure of FoMO, the
Fear of Missing Out scale
(FoMOs); this study is the first tooperationalize the construct. Study 2 recruited a nationally representative cohort to investigate howdemographic, motivational and well-being factors relate to FoMO. Study 3 examined the behavioraland emotional correlates of fear of missing out in a sample of young adults. Implications of the FoMOsmeasure and for the future study of FoMO are discussed.
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2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved