scholarly journals Health anxiety related to problematic smartphone use and gaming disorder severity during COVID ‐19: Fear of missing out as a mediator

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon D. Elhai ◽  
Dean McKay ◽  
Haibo Yang ◽  
Charlene Minaya ◽  
Christian Montag ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Anxiety ◽  
Gaming Disorder ◽  
Problematic Smartphone Use ◽  
Fear Of Missing Out ◽  
Smartphone Use

scholarly journals Dark Triad of Personality and Problematic Smartphone Use: A Preliminary Study on the Mediating Role of Fear of Missing Out

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 8463
Author(s):  
Rocco Servidio ◽  
Mark D. Griffiths ◽  
Zsolt Demetrovics
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Dark Triad ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Problematic Smartphone Use ◽  
Fear Of Missing Out ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Smartphone Use

The present study examined whether the relationship between the Dark Triad (DT) of personality and problematic smartphone use (PSU) can be explained by the mediating role of fear of missing out (FoMO). The role of FoMO in this relationship has yet to be examined. A total of 457 participants completed an online survey. Results indicated that males scored high on measures assessing DT of personality, while females scored high on PSU. Structural equation modelling showed that narcissism was directly associated with PSU. FoMO partially mediated the association between narcissism and PSU. Machiavellianism and narcissism were directly associated with FoMO. In the fully mediated model, narcissism (but not Machiavellianism) was still associated with FoMO, and in turn, FoMO was related to PSU. Although preliminary, the results of the present study indicated that Machiavellianism and narcissism might represent antecedents of FoMO, in addition to the Big Five personality traits, and both could be involved in the development of PSU.

Depression, anxiety and fear of missing out as correlates of social, non-social and problematic smartphone use

2020 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 106335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon D. Elhai ◽  
Elizabeth F. Gallinari ◽  
Dmitri Rozgonjuk ◽  
Haibo Yang
Keyword(s):  
Problematic Smartphone Use ◽  
Fear Of Missing Out ◽  
Smartphone Use ◽  
Anxiety And Fear

scholarly journals Discrepancies between Self-Reports and Behavior: Fear of Missing Out (FoMO), Self-Reported Problematic Smartphone Use Severity, and Objectively Measured Smartphone Use

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
Dmitri Rozgonjuk ◽  
Jon D. Elhai ◽  
Onur Sapci ◽  
Christian Montag
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Strong Predictor ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Problematic Smartphone Use ◽  
Fear Of Missing Out ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Smartphone Use ◽  
Objectively Measured ◽  
And Behavior

Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) is associated with self-reported problematic smartphone use (PSU) severity, but there is little investigation that includes objectively measured smartphone use. The aim of the current study was to provide insights into this domain. We combined the partially published data from two previous U.S.-based studies with college student samples that tracked smartphone use data with a different focus from the current study. Both data sets included socio-demographic measures, FoMO and PSU scale scores, and data for objectively measured screentime and frequency of screen unlocks over a week, amounting up to more than a thousand observations. FoMO had a strong correlation with self-reported PSU severity; however, FoMO was not associated with objectively measured smartphone use variables. FoMO did not predict behavioral smarthpone use over a week in multilevel modeling for repeated measures. Even though FoMO is a strong predictor of self-reported PSU severity, it does not predict objectively measured smartphone use.

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