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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.About:
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.read more
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Passive Social Networking Site Use and Well-Being: The Mediating Roles of Social Comparison and the Fear of Missing Out
Kaitlyn Burnell,Madeleine J. George,Justin W. Vollet,Samuel E. Ehrenreich,Marion K. Underwood +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how passive use relates to these outcomes through social comparison and FoMO and found that passive using SNSs positively predicted social comparison, which was positively related to FoMO, which in turn positively predicted depressive symptoms, and negatively predicted global self-worth, self-perceived physical appearance, and selfperceived social acceptance.
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Smartphones as digital companions: characterizing the relationship between users and their phones
Astrid Carolus,Jens F. Binder,Ricardo Muench,Catharina Schmidt,Florian Schneider,Sarah L. Buglass +5 more
TL;DR: The concept of companionship as a fruitful approach to explain smartphone-related behaviors is introduced and structural equation modeling lent support for the theoretical model indicating that trust and preoccupation mediate the relationship between closeness to the smartphone and stress and coping.
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Effects of attachment styles, dark triad, rejection sensitivity, and relationship satisfaction on social media addiction: A mediated model
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the mediating effects of attachment styles, rejection sensitivity and the Dark Triad personality traits on the links between relationship satisfaction and social media addiction and found that insecure attachment styles (i.e., preoccupied, dismissing, and fearful attachment styles), rejection sensitivity, and the dark triangle personality traits are negatively associated with relationship satisfaction.
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Social networking sites addiction and FoMO: The mediating role of envy and the moderating role of need to belong
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the mediating effect of envy in the association between social networking sites addiction and fear of missing out (FOMO), and whether this mediating process was moderated by need to belong.
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Individual differences in Fear of Missing Out (FoMO): Age, gender, and the Big Five personality trait domains, facets, and items
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the associations of age, gender, and personality with the fear of missing out on exciting or interesting events and found no gender differences in experiencing FoMO.
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The Big Five Trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and theoretical perspectives.
Oliver P. John,Sanjay Srivastava +1 more
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
Daria J. Kuss,Mark D. Griffiths +1 more
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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