Adaptation of fear of missing out scale (FoMOs): Turkish version validity and reliability study

Abstract

Background: The aim of this study is to examine psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the fear of missing out scale (FoMOs) on three different study groups. Method: We conducted the construct validity of the Turkish FoMOs with confirmatory factor analysis, measurement invariance (study I; n = 354), and concurrent validity (study II; n = 371). We also evaluated the reliability of the Turkish FoMOs (study III; n = 61) using test-retest and Cronbach alpha reliability. Results: In study I, the confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the one-dimensional structure of the Turkish version of the FoMOs was verified. The results of measurement analysis depending on the sample of study I demonstrated that configural and metric invariances were established across Facebook and other social media users. The Cronbach alpha values calculated from the samples of study I (α = .79) and study II (α = .78) indicated that internal consistency of the scale was at the acceptable level. Lastly, test-retest reliability of the scale was found as .86 from the study III. Conclusion: Overall findings indicated that the psychometric properties of the Turkish version of FoMO scale were satisfactory to measure the FoMO in a wide range of ages in the Turkish context.

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“…The Fear of Missing Out scale (FoMOs), the most widely used validated instrument in psychological studies to measure individuals' general FoMO 3,12,13 ; it is a self-report questionnaire that was developed by Przybylski et al (2013) based on self-determination theory 14 . The FoMOs has been translated to Turkish 15,16 , Arabic 17 , Spanish 18 , and Italian 19 . The results of previous studies showed that the reliability of internal consistency and test-retest reliability of different versions of the FoMOs were good but that the structural validity was inconsistent.…”