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Problematic smartphone use and relations with negative affect, fear of missing out, and fear of negative and positive evaluation.

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Results demonstrated that FoMO was most strongly related to both problematic smartphone use and social smartphone use relative to negative affect and fears of negative and positive evaluation, and these relations held when controlling for age and gender.
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For many individuals, excessive smartphone use interferes with everyday life In the present study, we recruited a non-clinical sample of 296 participants for a cross-sectional survey of problematic smartphone use, social and non-social smartphone use, and psychopathology-related constructs including negative affect, fear of negative and positive evaluation, and fear of missing out (FoMO) Results demonstrated that FoMO was most strongly related to both problematic smartphone use and social smartphone use relative to negative affect and fears of negative and positive evaluation, and these relations held when controlling for age and gender Furthermore, FoMO (cross-sectionally) mediated relations between both fear of negative and positive evaluation with both problematic and social smartphone use Theoretical implications are considered with regard to developing problematic smartphone use

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“Not Ignoring the FoMO (Fear of Missing Out) Effect” as a New Way to Persuade Consumers to Buy

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the relationship between the fear of missing out and consumption and evaluated the relevant literature on FoMO in the field of marketing. But it is seen that the literature on the FoMO effect in marketing is limited.
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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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