Motivational, emotional, and behavioral correlates of fear of missing out

By Andrew K. Przybylski, Kou Murayama, Cody R. DeHaan, Valerie Gladwell. Computers in Human Behavior, 2013

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Subfields: Communication, Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Motivators of online vulnerability: The impact of social network site use and FOMO (2017, background): “The FOMO scale demonstrated good internal consistency (Cronbach’s α = .88) complimenting previous studies (Przybylski et al., 2013).”
Fear of missing out: Relationships with depression, mindfulness, and physical symptoms. (2016, methodology): “Walter Thompson Intelligence, 2011, 2012), and conducted additional studies to integrate FoMO with self-determination theory which seeks to understand motivation and well-being factors related to the phenomenon (Przybylski et al., 2013).”
Extraversion, neuroticism, attachment style and fear of missing out as predictors of social media use and addiction (2017, background): “Fear of missing out is a relatively newly operationalized variable and previous research showed that it had a positive relationship with social media use (Przybylski et al., 2013).”
Students under lockdown: Comparisons of students’ social networks and mental health before and during the COVID-19 crisis in Switzerland (2020, background): “Those may, for example, include the stress of work, such as rigid study time tables, or social stressors such as Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) [21].”
Digital Stress over the Life Span: The Effects of Communication Load and Internet Multitasking on Perceived Stress and Psychological Health Impairments in a German Probability Sample (2017, background): “Fear of missing out is defined as “a pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent” (Przybylski et al., 2013, p. 1841).”
Social Media and Fear of Missing Out in Adolescents: The Role of Family Characteristics (2020, methodology): “Because of the parental influence on adolescents’ social media use, and since a higher degree of (social) media use is accompanied by a higher degree of FoMO (Abel et al., 2016; Barry et al., 2017; Przybylski et al., 2013), we also include social media use as an intervening variable.”
Conformity Consumption Behavior and FoMO (2019, background): “Specifically, studies on the FoMO phenomenon in the field of psychology mainly describe FoMO as a kind of severe symptom like obsession toward the mainstream [13,17].”
Online social media fatigue and psychological wellbeing - A study of compulsive use, fear of missing out, fatigue, anxiety and depression (2018, background): “Moreover, the psychological outcome of FoMO can be compulsive social media use (Alt, 2015; Clayton, Leshner, & Almond, 2015; Ho et al., 2014; Oberst et al., 2017; Przybylski et al., 2013; Wolniewicz et al., 2018).”