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Extraversion, neuroticism, attachment style and fear of missing out as predictors of social media use and addiction

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This article investigated whether extraversion, neuroticism, attachment style, and fear of missing out (FOMO) were predictors of social media use and addiction and found that FOMO was not significant for social media addiction.
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This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 2017-10-01. It has received 475 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Neuroticism & Attachment theory.

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Adult Attachment Style, Emotion Regulation, and Social Networking Sites Addiction

TL;DR: The results indicated that attachment anxiety positively predicted SNS addiction and that emotion regulation mediated this link, and suggest that individuals’ affective regulation capability should be a target of future interventions and treatments.
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Fear of missing out (FoMO): A generational phenomenon or an individual difference?:

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine potential negative consequences of the fear of missing out regarding activities within one's social circle in social media and more rapid forms of communication and examine potential generati...
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Fear of missing out and social networking sites use and abuse: A meta-analysis

TL;DR: The results of the random-effects meta-analysis show a positive correlation between FoMO and SNS use and between Fo MO and PSNSU, with effect sizes indicating robust associations.
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Factor structure and psychometric properties of the Italian version of the fear of missing out scale in emerging adults and adolescents.

TL;DR: The FoMO might be used in clinical settings as a means of screening people who show potentially high behavioral engagement with social media and can also help identify specific maladaptive cognitions and ruminative thoughts that maintain FoMO.
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Social support through online social networking sites and addiction among college students: The mediating roles of fear of missing out and problematic smartphone use

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors explored the mediating roles of fear of missing out and problematic smartphone use in the relationship between these two variables in a Chinese context and found that these two factors mediated the relationship of support through online social networking sites and addiction to such sites, both in series and in parallel.
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The Big Five Trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and theoretical perspectives.

TL;DR: The Big Five taxonomy as discussed by the authors is a taxonomy of personality dimensions derived from analyses of the natural language terms people use to describe themselves 3 and others, and it has been used for personality assessment.
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Motivational, emotional, and behavioral correlates of fear of missing out

TL;DR: The present research presents three studies conducted to advance an empirically based understanding of the fear of missing out phenomenon, the Fear of Missing Out scale (FoMOs), which is the first to operationalize the construct.
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Online Social Networking and Addiction—A Review of the Psychological Literature

TL;DR: The findings indicate that SNSs are predominantly used for social purposes, mostly related to the maintenance of established offline networks, and extraverts appear to use social networking sites for social enhancement, whereas introverts use it for social compensation.
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Development of a Facebook Addiction Scale.

TL;DR: The Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale was constructed and administered to 423 students together with several other standardized self-report scales, and was positively related to Neuroticism and Extraversion, and negatively related to Conscientiousness.
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How is extraversion, neuroticism and fomo linked?

Extraversion, neuroticism, and fear of missing out (FOMO) are all predictors of social media use and addiction, according to the study.