Fear of missing out (FOMO): overview, theoretical underpinnings, and literature review on relations with severity of negative affectivity and problematic technology use
By Jon D. Elhai, Haibo Yang, C. Montag. Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria, 2020
311 citations recorded by the source corpus.
This article discusses the fear of missing out (FOMO) on rewarding experiences, an important psychological construct in contemporary times. We present an overview of the FOMO construct and its operational definition and measurement. Then, we review recent empirical research on FOMO’s relationship with levels of online social engagement, problematic technology and internet communication use, negative affectivity, and sociodemographic variables. Additionally, we discuss theoretical conceptualizations regarding possible causes of FOMO and how FOMO may drive problematic internet technology use. Finally, we discuss future directions for the empirical study of FOMO.
Subfields: Education, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/9713f562781229d65d9539e0a4e3fd03cc10f2fd
Citations in the corpus
- Social media induced fear of missing out (FoMO) and phubbing: Behavioural, relational and psychological outcomes (2022, unknown): “On the other hand, others have implicated such usage in adverse outcomes such as performance decrement (Budnick et al., 2020; Elhai et al., 2020) and end-of-day exhaustion (Derks et al., 2021).”
- COVID-19 anxiety symptoms associated with problematic smartphone use severity in Chinese adults (2020, unknown): “COVID-19 anxiety more specifically represents an affective response to environmental stressors in I-PACE (Brand et al., 2019, 2016) and affective responses influence excessive internet and PSU (e.g., Dempsey et al., 2019; Elhai et al., 2020a; Lachmann et al., 2019).”
- Psychological and behavioral outcomes of social media-induced fear of missing out at the workplace (2021, unknown): “In terms of diminished mental well-being, for instance, FoMO has beendetermined to be related to hedonic well-being (Berezan et al., 2020), depression (Elhai et al., 2020a, 2020b), and envy (Yin et al., 2019).”