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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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Predicting social media use intensity in late adolescence: The role of attachment to friends and fear of missing out.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored the possibility of predicting SMU intensity based on peer attachment dimensions (Trust, Communication, Alienation) and FoMO on a sample of adolescents (N = 557; Mage = 18.09; SDage = .275).
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Wired to seek, comment and share? Examining the relationship between personality, news consumption and misinformation engagement

TL;DR: In this paper , a survey consisting of questions related to personality traits, news seeking, misperceptions and misinformation engagement was distributed to 551 individuals, and the authors found that extroversion was positively associated with social media news consumption while openness was inversely related to it.
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Social Media and Mental and Physical Health

TL;DR: This article reviewed a number of studies examining the relationship between social media and mental and physical health and concluded that negative consequences include social isolation, increased stress, anxiety, depression, disordered sleeping patterns, eating disorders, social media addiction, and attention deficit.
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Value-Based Behavioral Analysis of Users Using Twitter

TL;DR: This work uses the Twitter social network to collect tweets from different regions and proposes a value-based lexicon to identify the behavior of users in terms of their value systems, demonstrating that users in the Delhi region are more inclined towards social welfare whereas users inThe Washington region are involved more in self-indulgence.
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Research analysis of social media usage: assessment of issues pertaining to youth social networking usage and the consequent impact on their social interactions and social behavior

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the imposition of virtual life over the reality and found that addiction has become the main issue of mental health in society with the emergence of various social networking platforms.
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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.