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Relation between Fear Of Missing Out and Students’ Social Media Addiction, Well-being and Academic Performance

Döring, Clemens LU (2019) PSYP01 20191
Department of Psychology
Abstract
The present study aimed at investigating the recent phenomenon termed Fear of missing out (FOMO), which builds on a feeling of constantly having to be connected to what other people are doing on social media in order to not miss out. The purpose of this study was to see if a link between FOMO and social media addiction is present and if Swedish university students’ well-being and academic performance are related to FOMO. Four scales including FOMO, social media addiction, perceived academic performance and subjective well-being were administered in an online survey through Facebook. The participants were 113 university students. Results indicated a large association between FOMO and social media addiction. Furthermore, a significant... (More)
The present study aimed at investigating the recent phenomenon termed Fear of missing out (FOMO), which builds on a feeling of constantly having to be connected to what other people are doing on social media in order to not miss out. The purpose of this study was to see if a link between FOMO and social media addiction is present and if Swedish university students’ well-being and academic performance are related to FOMO. Four scales including FOMO, social media addiction, perceived academic performance and subjective well-being were administered in an online survey through Facebook. The participants were 113 university students. Results indicated a large association between FOMO and social media addiction. Furthermore, a significant difference on FOMO and social media addiction was found for male and female students, where females scored higher on both variables. The study also showed a significant difference in both variables for participants using social media up to 2h per day and those using it more than 2h per day. More exposure indicated higher scores on FOMO and social media addiction. The results did not indicate any association between well-being and academic performance to FOMO or social media addiction. The results are discussed in relation to previous studies. Focus is set on the dependency on social networking sites (SNSs) in connection with FOMO and social media addiction that has started to evolve for users making it harder to deal with a healthy balance between reality and virtual life and potentially leading to a vicious cycle of endless social media checking habits. (Less)
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author
Döring, Clemens LU
supervisor
organization
course
PSYP01 20191
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
fear of missing out, social media, academic performance, well-being, SNS
language
English
id
8988024
date added to LUP
2019-06-26 09:20:36
date last changed
2019-06-26 09:20:36
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  abstract     = {{The present study aimed at investigating the recent phenomenon termed Fear of missing out (FOMO), which builds on a feeling of constantly having to be connected to what other people are doing on social media in order to not miss out. The purpose of this study was to see if a link between FOMO and social media addiction is present and if Swedish university students’ well-being and academic performance are related to FOMO. Four scales including FOMO, social media addiction, perceived academic performance and subjective well-being were administered in an online survey through Facebook. The participants were 113 university students. Results indicated a large association between FOMO and social media addiction. Furthermore, a significant difference on FOMO and social media addiction was found for male and female students, where females scored higher on both variables. The study also showed a significant difference in both variables for participants using social media up to 2h per day and those using it more than 2h per day. More exposure indicated higher scores on FOMO and social media addiction. The results did not indicate any association between well-being and academic performance to FOMO or social media addiction. The results are discussed in relation to previous studies. Focus is set on the dependency on social networking sites (SNSs) in connection with FOMO and social media addiction that has started to evolve for users making it harder to deal with a healthy balance between reality and virtual life and potentially leading to a vicious cycle of endless social media checking habits.}},
  author       = {{Döring, Clemens}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Relation between Fear Of Missing Out and Students’ Social Media Addiction, Well-being and Academic Performance}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}