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Privacy
Published in Stephen Buetow, From Loneliness to Solitude in Person-centred Health Care, 2023
The third force eroding privacy is constant social pressure on persons to make their private information communal and public. Online, this pressure comes from FOMO, fear of missing out, or, worse, cyberbullying. Social sharing of web content comes to be widely expected as a form of social reciprocity.53 One consequence has been the development of public intimacy as a social state that exteriorizes personal intimacy into what the psychiatrist Jacques Lacan54 playfully called extimité or extimacy. This new form of intimacy can cause loneliness by displacing the centre of persons outside themselves.55 Expected to be always publicly accessible online and attuned to others,56 they rely on technological affordances. These design properties enable them to generate and easily share information online to bond with others by using social media, smartphones, tracking systems,57 and telepresence robots.58
Screen-Based Activities and Social Media
Published in Cathy Laver-Bradbury, Margaret J.J. Thompson, Christopher Gale, Christine M. Hooper, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2021
Vicki Bright, Cathy Laver-Bradbury
Anderson and Jiang (2018), in a recent survey of US teenagers aged 13–17, showed that many of them are aware of the potential risks of using social media. Children are concerned about the levels of advertising, pornography and violence. One in five adolescents were said to have experienced something worrying and unpleasant online. Young people said that they prefer to discuss issues about staying safe online by talking to their peers, as they do not trust that their teachers are confident in their knowledge of internet use. Online self-disclosure, identity issues, fear of missing out (FOMO) and cyberbullying can be major issues for young people to negotiate.
Introduction
Published in Ciarán Mc Mahon, Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Media and Technology, 2020
I also discuss Dunbar’s numbers within social media studies, and in particular the lesser-known ones, namely the sympathy group and the support clique. This treatment may be useful with regard to, for example, the mutual aid groups which have sprung up in many locations (Butler, 2020). Another concept discussed here is that of FOMO – or the fear of missing out. How has this phenomenon evolved during the pandemic? Media outlets are reporting conflicting experiences, with some saying that the lockdown has “cured their FOMO” (Burleigh, 2020) while others admit that while they feel bad about it, they are still experiencing fear of missing out (Tait, 2020).
Assessing the prevalence and severity of smartphone addiction in postsecondary students: a brief report
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2022
Anna Rudkovska, Wuyou Sui, Jennifer D. Irwin
Young adults (18–35 years) comprise the largest smartphone user group; they report the highest levels of dependency on smartphone technologies and the most associated negative health outcomes.10 A study examining in-class smartphone use among college students found the vast majority (95%) always brought their phone to class.11 The emotional burden felt by students’ attachments to their phones and computers was underscored by a study of over 2,000 students from 40 American colleges.12 The authors reported that 25% of respondents said they would feel relief if they shut off their devices. In contrast, a different study reported that just over half (53%) of students at an American college claimed that they were not overly dependent on their phones.13 However, almost two-thirds of those respondents also stated that they had concerns of missing something were they to turn off their phones.13 This finding suggests that the fear of missing out (FOMO)—the anxiety stemming from perception(s) that others in one’s social circle are leading more interesting and socially desirable lives14—might be a contributing factor to excessive smartphone usage and frequent smartphone checking. In addition, emerging evidence has linked smartphone addiction with increased stress in university students.15
Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) and Gaming Disorder among Chinese University Students: Impulsivity and Game Time as Mediators
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2020
Li Li, Mark D. Griffiths, Zhimin Niu, Songli Mei
FoMO was significantly positively associated with impulsivity, which is similar to impulsive buying (Aydin et al., 2019). FoMO is a state of anxiety created by a compulsive concern that an individual might miss an opportunity for social interaction or a novel experience. The feeling of FoMO may trigger impulsive behavior (i.e., the urgency to check a phone and the inability to focus on a task), which has been found to be positively associated with impulsive digital communication behavior (Hefner et al., 2018). In addition, FoMO, one of psychological traits, has been considered as a type of social anxiety (Duman & Ozkara, 2019), and social anxiety has been positively associated with the online gaming addiction (Park et al., 2016). In the present study, FoMO was also significantly positively associated with GD. However, Wegmann et al. (2017) reported that psychopathological symptoms (i.e., depression and interpersonal sensitivity) had no direct effect on IGD, and that the impact of psychopathological symptoms on IGD were serially mediated via state-FoMO and avoidance expectancies, but not trait-FoMO and avoidance expectancies. The direct effects from trait-FoMO/state-FoMO to IGD were both non-significant. Based on self-determination theory (SDT; Ryan & Deci, 2017), the satisfaction of basic psychological needs is strongly associated with proactive behavioral regulation (e.g., videogame playing and sports) (Hagger & Chatzisarantis, 2007; Przybylski et al., 2009).
Off-task media use in academic settings: cycles of self-regulation failure
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2021
Daniel B. le Roux, Douglas A. Parry
Impulses to engage in OTMU become accentuated when the academic setting is experienced as tedious, creating a sense of frustration or disappointment among students about their experiences. Previous studies have used the term FoMo – the fear of missing out on potentially fulfilling23 – to describe the latent motivation to engage in other fulfilling experiences. Our data support earlier findings suggesting that FoMo triggers procrastination.24 When considered in relation to this motivation, the affordances of online media, SNSs in particular, make their use a highly appealing form of short term gratification. For instance, P4-5 stated that: