“I Wanna be in the Loop!” – The Role of Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) for the Quantity and Quality of Young Adolescents’ Mobile Phone Use

Hefner, Dorothée; Knop, Karin; Vorderer, Peter

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“…40 In addition, FoMO has also been found to be closely related to impulsive social communication through excessive smartphone use. 85 Therefore, higher levels of FoMO may negatively impact executive function and trigger impulsive behavior. Some participants reported habitually or impulsively checking their smartphones even if the phones did not receive any new information, 86 because they feared missing out on something important.…”

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The Mediating Role of Impulsivity and the Moderating Role of Gender Between Fear of Missing Out and Gaming Disorder Among a Sample of Chinese University Students

Griffiths

Mei

et al. 2021

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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The role of fear of missing out (FoMO) in addictive behaviors has recently attracted growing attention. In view of negative effects of gaming disorder (GD) among adolescents and emerging adults, research examining the relationship between FoMO and GD is needed, alongside the roles of impulsivity and gender in the relationship between FoMO and GD. This study examined whether impulsivity as a mediator and gender as a moderator impacted on the relationship between FoMO and GD among a sample of Chinese university students. A sample of 1,288 Chinese university students from three universities completed an online survey through the Wenjuanxing platform. The Chinese Trait-State Fear of Missing Out Scale, the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale-Brief, and the Chinese Gaming Disorder Scale were used in this study. The model results indicated that impulsivity partially mediated the relationship between FoMO and GD, and that there was a larger effect size between impulsivity and GD among males. High levels of FoMO among individuals may impact on executive functions leading to more impulsivity, and are associated with GD. Gender may moderate the relationship between impulsivity and GD. This study deepens the understanding of the relationship between FoMO and GD, and provides new perspectives for practitioners to incorporate into health prevention programs to help regulate emotion, control impulsivity, and decrease GD.

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The Mediating Role of Impulsivity and the Moderating Role of Gender Between Fear of Missing Out and Gaming Disorder Among a Sample of Chinese University Students

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Mei

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Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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“…Message appeals within the FOMO theme may hint at anticipated regret teens may feel if they do not engage in car-free mobility. Other studies have found associations between FOMO in youth, mobile phone or social media use, and risky communication, such as distracted driving (Hefner et al, 2018;Przybylski et al, 2013). The current study sought feedback on the potential for applying FOMO in messaging that promotes positive communication and behaviors.…”

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and in various posts and positions in the Swedish government including being a member of the Swedish Parliament, an ambassador to India, as well as one of first female ministers in Sweden despite her career being delayed and at times overshadowed due to gender roles and expectations. Myrdal also was awarded the Albert Einstein Peace Prize (1980) and Nobel Peace Prize (1982). Although she was not without controversy, I believe Myrdal is salient to the work of public interest communications (PIC) because she used her unique perspective and experiences as a researcher, mother, and wife to enact change. Through her research she took what was very private, such as the division of home labor, work-life balance, and child care and made the topics public though debate, dialogue, political agendas, and policy. Therefore, I concur with Ekerwald (2000) that Myrdal's work is an "inspiration for finding solutions for societal problems" (p. 351) because Myrdal used clear arguments, careful analysis, broad experience, a range of theoretical perspectives, and scientific thinking to command people to consider different points of views to initiate change. In this issue of the Journal of Public Interest Communications, the authors' work seems to center around the question, "What happens when we make the private public?" By analyzing Myrdal's research style, we can further probe and investigate this important question. Myrdal reformulated problems to allow for examining them from new and different perspectives (Ekerwald, 2000). One way to give light to new perspectives is through transparency. Austin et al.'s article allows readers to view the types of transparency social media

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“…There is recognition of the impact that news and media can have on a person’s mood. With an explicit focus on young people, research has examined the impact of constantly being online and the resultant ‘fear of missing out’ on mental health and wellbeing (Hefner et al, 2018; O’Connell, 2020; Steele et al, 2020; Vorderer et al, 2016).…”

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Older people’s news dependency and social connectedness

Fisher

Park

Lee

et al. 2021

Media International Australia

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Social isolation has become a growing issue, particularly among older citizens. The ‘digital divide’ has been identified as one of the contributing factors leaving many older citizens behind. While increasing digital literacy among seniors has been identified as one of the remedies, less attention has been paid to the role of news media on the wellbeing and connectedness of older people. Through the lens of the uses and gratifications theory, this article reports on the findings of a survey of 562 news consumers aged 50 years and above who live in Canberra, the capital city of Australia. The analysis highlights the important role of news in reducing feelings of social isolation, particularly for those who spend more time alone and older people with cognitive impairment. Older participants who had difficulty concentrating and learning new tasks were also more dependent on news. We suggest this is due to the habitual, predictable and concise nature of news. These findings contribute to our understanding of the role of news in the wellbeing of older people and point to the need for policymakers and those in the aged care sector to ensure access to news for older citizens to improve the quality of life.

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“I Wanna be in the Loop!” – The Role of Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) for the Quantity and Quality of Young Adolescents’ Mobile Phone Use

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The Mediating Role of Impulsivity and the Moderating Role of Gender Between Fear of Missing Out and Gaming Disorder Among a Sample of Chinese University Students

The Mediating Role of Impulsivity and the Moderating Role of Gender Between Fear of Missing Out and Gaming Disorder Among a Sample of Chinese University Students

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Older people’s news dependency and social connectedness

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