Open AccessFear of Missing Out and Problematic Social Media Use: A Research Among University Students in Turkey
Author(s) -
Ahmet Çetinkaya,
Ali Murat Kırık,
Uğur Gündüz
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
academic journal of information technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1309-1581
DOI - 10.5824/ajite.2021.04.001.x
Subject(s) - turkish , psychology , social media , intrusion , social psychology , construct (python library) , missing data , scale (ratio) , fear of negative evaluation , anxiety , social anxiety , political science , philosophy , linguistics , physics , geochemistry , quantum mechanics , computer science , law , programming language , geology , machine learning , psychiatry
This study examines the relationship of fear of missing out (FOMO) with heavy social networking among Turkish university students (aged 17 - 55). Factor analysis of FOMO scale led us to evaluate the construct under two dimensions as (1) fear of missing experience and (2) fear of missing activity. The results revealed that fear of missing activity increases social media intrusion while fear of missing experience is found to have no significant effect. The reverse relationship is also valid: an urge to use social media predicts fear of missing out (activity and experience). Fear of missing experience is associated with problematic social media use (PSMU) and a high desire to use social media.