Fear of Missing Out as a Predictor of Problematic Social Media Use and Phubbing Behavior among Flemish Adolescents

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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Fear of Missing Out as a Predictor of Problematic Social Media Use and Phubbing Behavior among Flemish Adolescents

Lieven De Marez Mariek Vanden Abeele Vittoria Franchina Gianluca Lo Coco Antonius J. Van Rooij

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Male SATISFACTION Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis lcsh:Medicine fear of missing out (FOMO)050109 social psychology 0508 media and communications Surveys and Questionnaires ANXIETY NETWORKING adolescents media_common teenagers Fear of missing out 05 social sciences Fear Social Participation SELF problematic social media use (PSMU)Feeling Trait language Anxiety phubbing Female addiction medicine.symptom Psychology Social psychology media_common.quotation_subject social media SMARTPHONE USE 050801 communication & media studies MOBILE PHONE Article teenager Settore M-PSI/08 - Psicologia Clinica medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Social media Addiction lcsh:R Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health INSTAGRAM language.human_language Cell Phone Use Behavior Addictive LIFE Flemish Cross-Sectional Studies Adolescent Behavior Mobile phone adolescent INTERNET USE

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Fear-of-missing-out (FOMO) refers to feelings of anxiety that arise from the realization that you may be missing out on rewarding experiences that others are having. FOMO can be identified as an intra-personal trait that drives people to stay up to date of what other people are doing, among others on social media platforms. Drawing from the findings of a large-scale survey study among 2663 Flemish teenagers, this study explores the relationships between FOMO, social media use, problematic social media use (PSMU) and phubbing behavior. In line with our expectations, FOMO was a positive predictor of both how frequently teenagers use several social media platforms and of how many platforms they actively use. FOMO was a stronger predictor of the use of social media platforms that are more private (e.g., Facebook, Snapchat) than platforms that are more public in nature (e.g., Twitter, Youtube). FOMO predicted phubbing behavior both directly and indirectly via its relationship with PSMU. These findings support extant research that points towards FOMO as a factor explaining teenagers&rsquo

year	journal	country	edition	language
2018-10-01	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

10.3390/ijerph15102319 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102319