College students' academic motivation, media engagement and fear of missing out

By Dorit Alt. Computers in Human Behavior, 2015

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Fear of Missing Out and Procrastination as Mediators Between Sensation Seeking and Adolescent Smartphone Addiction (2019, background): “Fear of missing out (FoMO) is a concept comprising a pervasive apprehension that other people might be having rewarding experience when one is absent, and a compulsive desire to keep up with what other people are doing (Przybylski et al. 2013; Kellner 2013; Alt 2015).”
Fear of missing out (FOMO): overview, theoretical underpinnings, and literature review on relations with severity of negative affectivity and problematic technology use (2020, background): “Finalmente, outras pesquisas descobriram três fatores da síndrome de FOMO em informações sociais, notícias e comerciais [21, 22].”
The Social Media Party: Fear of Missing Out (FoMO), Social Media Intensity, Connection, and Well-Being (2020, background): “Using a student sample of 296 Israeli undergraduate students, Alt (2015) found that FoMO leads to increased social media use in the classroom. FoMO was found to mediate the impact of two academic motivations and social media use. A later study by Alt (2017) corroborated her earlier finding that FoMO”
Fear of missing out (FoMO): A generational phenomenon or an individual difference? (2020, background): “Loneliness tends to be moderately to highly correlated with self-reported FoMO, and individuals high in FoMO and loneliness tend to be more highly engaged with social media (Alt, 2015; Barry et al., 2017; Blackwell et al., 2017).”
Conformity Consumption Behavior and FoMO (2019, background): “The other one is the anxiety of isolation, described as the fear of being broken away and being isolated from the mainstream group [13,33].”
The Issue Takes It All? (2019, background): “…(Martin, 30), pointing to the fact that engagement decisions are also based on general characteristics of the news receiver like the fear of missing out news information (news information FoMO, see Alt, 2015) or the duty to keep informed (McCombs and Poindexter 1983; Poindexter and McCombs 2001).”
Fear of Missing Out, online social networking and mobile phone addiction: A latent profile approach (2017, background): “…deficits in psychological need satisfaction to constantly seek out updates and possibilities to engage in social media, even when this takes place in a potentially inappropriate or dangerous situation, e.g. while driving or attending a lesson (Alt, 2015; Przybylski et al., 2015; Turkle, 2011).”
Fear of missing out: prevalence, dynamics, and consequences of experiencing FOMO (2018, background): “Additionally, FOMO has been proposed to be driven by social media use (e.g. Worthman 2011), which has received some support in recent research (Alt 2015; Oberst et al.”
Problematic smartphone use: A conceptual overview and systematic review of relations with anxiety and depression psychopathology. (2017, background): “Research demonstrates that FoMO appears to drive overuse of technology such as social media (Alt, 2015; Przybylski et al., 2013), as well as smartphones (Clayton et al., 2015).”
Personality, fear of missing out and problematic internet use and their relationship to subjective well-being (2017, background): “Moreover, given that FOMO is related to social media use (Przybylski et al, 2013; Alt, 2015; Vaidya et al, 2016), and it is predicted that personality contributes to FOMO, we can expect personality to instigate a greater level of social media use indirectly through FOMO.”
Students’ Wellbeing, Fear of Missing out, and Social Media Engagement for Leisure in Higher Education Learning Environments (2016, unknown): “The analysis resulted in three factors ( χ 2 = 138.412, df = 60, p = .000; CFI = .944; RMSEA = .067): Social FoMO - based on the original FoMOs ’ items, including six items ( α = .79); three items of fear of missing out news information ( α = .70); and fear of missing out commercial information, inc”