ArticleBMC psychology2023
On fear of missing out, social networks use disorder tendencies and meaning in life.
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- Social Media Use, Fear of Missing Out (FoMO), Sleep Disturbance, and Physical Health Complaints: A Social Media Content Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Fear of Missing Out and Problematic Social Media Use Among Chinese University Students: Latent Profiles and Two-Wave Network Comparisons.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Psychometric properties of the Italian version of the State Fear of Missing Out Inventory in a sample of Italian young adults.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Purpose and Meaning in Life in Older Age: A Correlational Meta-Analysis.Research square · 2026Article
- The darker side of positive AI attitudes: Investigating associations with (problematic) social media use.Addictive behaviors reports · 2025Article
- Fear of missing out predicts loneliness through psychological and social pathways among doctoral students.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Loneliness moderates the predictive effect of the trait-state FoMO pathway on problematic social media use.Addictive behaviors reports · 2025Article
- The Emotional Reinforcement Mechanism of and Phased Intervention Strategies for Social Media Addiction.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The longitudinal relationship between loneliness and problematic social networking site use in college students: the mediating role of trait- and state-fear of missing out.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- COVID-19-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders Relation With Social Media Addiction Among University Students: Mediating Role of Fear of Missing Out.Psychiatry investigation · 2024Article
- Social media use and everyday cognitive failure: investigating the fear of missing out and social networks use disorder relationship.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Won't We Know If It's Toxic? A Review of the Impacts of Social Media on Public Health.Missouri medicineArticle
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Abstract
Much research has been conducted on the association between social networks use disorder tendencies (SNUD; i.e. problematic social media use) and well-being. In more detail, a meta-analysis and further research suggest an inverse association between higher SNUD tendencies and lower well-being. In existing studies on social media use and well-being, this association has often been investigated by asking participants about their life satisfaction and/or emotional well-being. A path that has only recently been used to shed further light on SNUD tendencies is the assessment of meaning in life. Against this background, the present study aimed to investigate both the search for and presence of meaning in life in the context of SNUD tendencies in 955 participants. To the best of our knowledge and beyond what has been mentioned, this study is the first to investigate the links between meaning in life variables and state/trait fear of missing out (FoMO), with FoMO being a critical variable known to be linked to the overuse of digital technologies. In a structural equation model, we observed that associations between FoMO and meaning in life variables was mediated by SNUD tendencies. Although the present study is of cross-cultural nature and cannot establish causality, it might be the case that proneness to FoMO might trigger SNUD tendencies and as a consequence, results in more search for meaning in life, while hindering presence of meaning in life.
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