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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 Network Site Usage Among Adults: Social Networking Status and Virtual Loneliness

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between being members of social network sites (SNS) and the reasons for their use among individuals who are between 20-66 years of age.
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Is this mine? Psychological ownership and the social media follower

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the transference of psychological ownership experienced by followers of social media influencers toward both influencer and the product using face-to-face semi-structured interviews with 30 respondents.
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Preferencia en la Utilización de Plataformas y Diferentes Usos de Internet. El Rol Moderador de los Rasgos Psicopatológicos de Personalidad en la Relación con el Bienestar Percibido

TL;DR: In this article , the authors analyzed preferences for different Internet platforms and their use, considering different psychological variables, such as Big Five Inventory, Mental Health Continuum S-F, Personality Inventory for DSM-5 B-F and an ad-hoc designed survey to assess different Internet uses.
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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.