I rely on a little help from my friends: the effect of interpersonal and intrapersonal emotion regulation on the relationship between FOMO and problematic internet use
Flack M, Burton WH, Caudwell KM
BMC psychiatry · 5 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Cross-sectional study (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
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Publication
- Published
- 2024-05-24 · BMC Psychiatry · vol. 24 · issue 1 · p. 384
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Cited
- 14 citations · more than 98% of similar papers · 10.6× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 45 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Media Influence and Health · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Keywords
- fear of missing out, emotion regulation, interpersonal emotion regulation, intrapersonal emotion regulation, social media addiction, doomscrolling, problematic internet use, mediation
- MeSH
- humans, fear, interpersonal relations, adult, friends, female, male, young adult, social media, emotional regulation, internet addiction disorder, internet use
3 authors
From AU
- Mal FlackCharles Darwin University
- William H BurtonCharles Darwin University
- Kim M. Caudwell · correspondingCharles Darwin University
Abstract
Background
This study investigated the role of emotion regulation in relation to the links between fear of missing out (i.e., FOMO) and two components of problematic internet use: problematic social media use and doomscrolling.
Methods
Participants (N = 603, Mage = 30.41, SDage = 7.64; 49.1% male-identifying) completed measures of fear of missing out, intrapersonal and interpersonal emotion regulation, and problematic social media use, and doomscrolling. A parallel mediation model was tested to examine the nature of the associations between fear of missing out, intrapersonal, and interpersonal emotion regulation, in accounting for variance in the outcome measures.
Results
Analyses revealed that the effect of fear of missing out on problematic social media use was fully mediated by both intrapersonal and interpersonal emotion regulation. In contrast, the effect on doomscrolling was fully mediated by intrapersonal emotion regulation only.
Conclusions
Findings clarify the role of emotion regulation in explaining the relationship between fear of missing out and two types of problematic internet use, indicating a need to consider individual differences in emotion regulation in an evolving social media landscape.
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