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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 Orientations and Social Networking Site Addiction: The Mediating Effects of Online Social Support and the Fear of Missing Out

TL;DR: Investigating whether online social support and the fear of missing out mediated the relationship between insecure attachment and social networking site addiction among 463 college students in China showed how insecure attachment is linked to SNS addiction.
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Instagram use frequency is associated with problematic smartphone use, but not with depression and anxiety symptom severity:

TL;DR: In this article, it has been shown that social media use, as well as problematic smartphone use (PSU) are associated with psychopathology variables, such as depression and anxiety.
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Adaptation of fear of missing out scale (FoMOs): Turkish version validity and reliability study

TL;DR: Overall findings indicated that the psychometric properties of the Turkish version of FoMO scale were satisfactory to measure the FoMO in a wide range of ages in the Turkish context.
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Personality associations with Facebook use and tendencies towards Facebook Use Disorder.

TL;DR: A large sample of Facebook users reported higher levels of extraversion and lower levels of conscientiousness compared to non-users, and Tendencies towards Facebook-Use Disorder correlated positively with neuroticism.
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Investigating Direct and Indirect Effects of Social Media Addiction, Social Media Usage and Personality Traits on FOMO

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated direct and indirect effects of Social Media Addiction (SMA), Social Media Usage (DSMU), and Personality Traits beyond BIG 5 on Fear of Missing Out (FOMO).
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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.