Determining validity and reliability of Turkish version of Fear of Missing out Scale

Understanding Patterns for Smartphone Addiction: Age, Sleep Duration, Social Network Use and Fear of Missing Out

“…As seen in the study, FoMO has the highest correlation with smartphone dependency, which supports the findings of the study conducted by Elhai et al (2016) demonstrating that FoMO is related to problematic smartphone use. In the study conducted by Gökler et al (2016) with university students in Turkey, researchers have also discovered a positive relationship between FoMO and problematic mobile phone use (r=0.587, p<.01). In addition, a significant relationship was reported between being online on SNS accounts throughout the day, active use of SNS for periods exceeding seven hours, and FOMO in preservice teachers (Gezgin, Hamutoglu, Gemikonakli, & Raman, 2017).…”

“…The tool was originally developed by Przybylski et al (2013) and adapted to Turkish by Gökler et al (2016). The FoMO Scale (FoMOs) has been used in this current study for the purposes of collecting data.…”

“…In this regard, as the duration of intervals between checking their SNS notifications decreases, smartphone addiction increases. A study by Gökler et al (2016), has found that the FoMO scores were related to the frequency of student urge to use an Internet accessible device in order to check their Facebook and Twitter status. Young people heavily use their smartphones for managing their social network accounts; therefore, it is thought that students often check their social media accounts on smartphones too.…”

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

“…The FoMOs has been adapted previously to Turkish (Gökler, Aydın, Ünal, & Metintaş, 2016), Arabic (Al-Menayes, 2016), Spanish (Gil, Oberst, Del Valle, & Chamarro, 2015), and English (Perrone, 2013; for American adolescents). The Arabic version of the FoMOs showed a two-factor structure with .82 and .72 Cronbach alpha values while the Turkish, Spanish, and English versions supported the original one-factor structure with .81, .85, and .93 Cronbach alpha values respectively.…”

“…The Arabic version of the FoMOs showed a two-factor structure with .82 and .72 Cronbach alpha values while the Turkish, Spanish, and English versions supported the original one-factor structure with .81, .85, and .93 Cronbach alpha values respectively. Although the first adaptation of the FoMOs in Turkish was accomplished (Gökler et al, 2016) prior to the present study, the authors conducted their study just on a group consisting of only 200 university students with an average age of 21.4. Thus, this meant that the first Turkish version of the FoMOs could be valid only for young university students and that a new version of the scale is needed for the justification of the validity of research to be undertaken on older target groups.…”