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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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Social media addiction: Applying the DEMATEL approach

TL;DR: The DEMATEL results revealed the predictors of openness to experience (personality dimension), loneliness (psychosocial), and depression (comorbid) as the most important predictor of social media addiction within each group.
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Individual Differences in the Relationship Between Attachment and Nomophobia Among College Students: The Mediating Role of Mindfulness

TL;DR: It is concluded that gender should be taken into account in mindfulness-based treatments dealing with nomophobia, as individuals who are emotionally more dependent and crave more closeness and attention in the relationship tend to display higher levels of fear or discomfort when they have no access to their mobile phones.
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Family environment and problematic internet use among adolescents: The mediating roles of depression and Fear of Missing Out

TL;DR: It is proposed that a negative family environment is associated with high adolescents' depression which, in turn, leads to Fear of Missing Out (FoMO), and hence, PIU and time spent online are mediated by depression and FoMO.
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Social Media Application as a New Paradigm for Business Communication: The Role of COVID-19 Knowledge, Social Distancing, and Preventive Attitudes

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored the relationship between COVID-19 knowledge, social distancing, individuals' attitudes toward social media use, and practices of using social media amid the COVID19 crisis.
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Fear of missing out and problematic social media use as mediators between emotional support from social media and phubbing behavior.

TL;DR: The results indicated that emotional support from social media was positively associated with phubbing behavior and both fear of missing out and problematic social media use mediated the relationship between emotional supportFrom social media and phubbed behavior.
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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.

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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.