ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Fear of Missing Out, Mental Wellbeing, and Social Connectedness: A Seven-Day Social Media Abstinence Trial.
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- The effects of social media abstinence on affective well-being and life satisfaction: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- Impacts of digital social media detox for mental health: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Narra J · 2024Pooled it
- The Impact of Social Media Use Interventions on Mental Well-Being: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Pooled it
- Causal effects of social media use on self-esteem, mindfulness, sleep and emotional well-being: a social media restriction study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Trial
- Effects of a 14-day social media abstinence on mental health and well-being: results from an experimental study.BMC psychology · 2024Trial
- Chasing Happily Ever After: Psychometric Development and Nomological Validation of the Rescue Fantasy Beliefs Scale.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Development and Psychometric Analysis of the Digital Detox Scale.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2026Article
- The impact of active live-stream participation on wellbeing: the mediating roles of social presence and connectedness and the moderating role of fear of missing out.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Attention in our digital ecosystem: The five interactive components that drive media multitasking.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Review
- Predictors of Problematic Internet Use Among Romanian High School Students.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Associations Between Screen Time Use and Health Outcomes Among US Teenagers.Preventing chronic disease · 2025Article
- The relationship between state-fear of missing out, loneliness, adaptive perfectionism and social media use in university students: a questionnaire and intervention study.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The relationships between fear of missing out and psychological and sociocultural factors in Latinx emerging adult college students.Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology · 2025Article
- Many faces of FoMO: A qualitative in-depth investigation of context-specific experiences, emotions, and coping strategies.PloS one · 2025Article
- The role of FOMO and mindfulness in the relationship between mobile phone dependence and sleep quality among Chinese youth: a mediating and moderating analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Predictors of smartphone addiction and its effect on quality of life: a cross-sectional study among the young adults in Bangladesh.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- Caught in the loop: the role of volitional control in the FoMO and social media addiction cycle.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- From "online brains" to "online lives": understanding the individualized impacts of Internet use across psychological, cognitive and social dimensions.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2024Article
- A Comprehensive Review on Digital Detox: A Newer Health and Wellness Trend in the Current Era.Cureus · 2024Review
- The Relationships between Effortful Control, Mind Wandering, and Mobile Phone Addiction Based on Network Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Smartphones aid the constant accessibility of social media (SM) applications, and these devices and platforms have become a key part of our everyday lives and needs. Previous research has focused on the psychological impact of social media use (SMU) and SM abstinence has only received limited attention. Therefore, employing a combination of an experimental within-subjects mixed methodology using surveys to obtain both quantitative and qualitative data, this study aimed to compare psychosocial factors of fear of missing out (FoMO), mental wellbeing (MWB), and social connectedness (SC) before and after seven days of SM abstinence. Results revealed that participants (
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