“I don’t want to miss a thing”: Adolescents’ fear of missing out and its relationship to adolescents’ social needs, Facebook use, and Facebook related stress

Abstract

a b s t r a c tThis survey study among adolescents (N ¼ 402) investigates an integrative model that examines (1) the mediating role of adolescents' fear of missing out (FoMO) in the relationships of adolescents' need to belong and need for popularity with adolescents' Facebook use and (2) the relationships of adolescents' FoMO with adolescents' perceived stress related to the use of Facebook. Structural equation modeling results indicated that an increased need to belong and an increased need for popularity were associated with an increased use of Facebook. These relationships were mediated by FoMO. Increased FoMO was associated with increased stress related to Facebook use. These results emphasize the important role that FoMO plays in adolescents' media use and well-being.

Social Media Use, Social Media Stress, and Sleep: Examining Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Relationships in Adolescents

“…A second potential explanation for these gender differences is that a certain amount of SM stress is needed to be detrimental for adolescents sleep. As girls more frequently perceived their SM use as being stressful than boys (e.g., Beyens et al, 2016;Thomée et al, 2011), more girls may have surpassed the threshold for SM stress to interfere with sleep than boys.…”

“…More specifically, it has been argued that some adolescents experience high levels of stress from using SM (Beyens, Frison, & Eggermont, 2016). To date, only few studies have specifically focused on the relationship between SM stress and adolescent sleep (e.g., Garett et al, 2016;Xanidis & Brignell, 2016), and no studies have aimed to disentangle the effect of SM use from SM stress.…”

“…There are, however, some crucial differences between boys and girls with respect to SM use and SM stress. Girls are more likely than boys to use SM (Antheunis, Schouten, & Krahmer, 2016;Müller et al, 2016), and are also more likely to report SM stress (Beyens et al, 2016;Thomée, Harenstam, & Hagberg, 2011). These differences between boys and girls may also result in differences in the relationship between SM use and sleep as well as SM stress and sleep.…”

Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 2—Application to Peer Group Processes and Future Directions for Research

“…Similarly, publicness and availability may exacerbate adolescents’ experiences of “fear of missing out,” defined by researchers as the experience of apprehension that one may be missing out on rewarding social activities (Przybylski et al 2013). Indeed, one study suggests that this “fear of missing out” mediated the association between Facebook use and greater need for popularity among adolescents (Beyens et al 2016), and that adolescents with greater fear of missing out used Facebook more intensely. Furthermore, visualness , publicness , and permanence create an environment where photographs of social events, often carefully crafted or chosen, serve as clear evidence of rejection for adolescents who were not present at these events (Underwood and Ehrenreich 2017).…”

Are Self-Presentation Influenced by Friendship-Contingent Self-Esteem and Fear Of Missing Out?

“…The better this need is fulfilled, the more positive the individual's self-esteem becomes. This means that individuals with high friendship-contingent self-esteem also have high Fear of Missing Out (Beyens, Frison, & Eggermont, 2016 In situations where individuals are geographically separated from people they deem important, individuals become even more dependent on social media. Social media becomes an avenue to overcome barriers of time and space to maintain relationships, and thus becomes a form of social support.…”