Fearing of missing out (FoMO) in mobile social media environment: Conceptual development and measurement scale

Song, Xiaokang; Zhang, Xuanhui; Zhao, Yuxiang; Song, Shijie

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Title

Fearing of missing out (FoMO) in mobile social media environment: Conceptual development and measurement scale

Author(s)

• Song, Xiaokang
• Zhang, Xuanhui
• Zhao, Yuxiang
• Song, Shijie

Issue Date

2017

Keyword(s)

• Fearing of missing out (FoMO)
• Mobile social media
• Conceptual development
• Measurement scale
• Factor analysis

Date of Ingest

2017-07-27T15:57:51Z

Abstract

Recently, a new phenomenon termed Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) has successfully attracted our attention. FoMO is usually regarded as a concept of cognitive psychology, which reflects a kind of individual psychological state, namely the desire to know and understand what is happening externally. With the sweeping progress of mobile Internet and smart devices, FoMO has evolved from the individual manifestation to a prevalence social phenomenon. We argue that FoMO should be viewed as a multi-dimensional construct, which may refer to individual’s psychological motivation, cognitive state, and behavioral performance in a dynamic way. In this study, an operational definition will be proposed to depict the FoMO in mobile social media environment. Then, based on the literature research and interview method, we develop the measurement scale of FoMO in mobile social media context, and use the data of questionnaire survey to verify the convergent and discriminant validity of the scales.

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iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2017 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

Conference Poster

Language

en

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Copyright 2017 Xiaokang Song, Xuanhui Zhang, Yuxiang Zhao, and Shijie Song

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