This paper enriches the research on the effects of psychology and information behaviour of mobile social media users on their interpersonal relationship.
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Fear-of-missing-out has affected users’ interpersonal relationship and behaviour in the offline environment, especially for post-90s generation users. It also implies that the view of simply treating the anxiety disorder fear-of-missing-out as a psychological symptom is debatable.Ĭonclusions. This indicates that driven by fear-of-missing-out, the post-90s mobile users often check the information in device frequently and subconsciously, resulting in excessive information behaviour, which does harm to the development of romantic relationship. The behavioural manifestation of fear-of-missing-out has a significant negative effect on romantic relationships, while emotional and cognitive manifestations have no significant effects on romantic relationships.
The quantitative analysis of survey data employed the statistical package SPSS 26.0. The impacts of fear-of-missing-out on romantic relationship were analyzed from the perspectives of three dimensions of the fear: cognitive, emotional and behavioural manifestations. The statistical methods such as regression analysis were adopted.Īnalysis.
The sample size was 274 Chinese post-90s (people born in the 1990’s) mobile social media users who were in love for at least one year and unmarried. The questionnaire survey was conducted in December 2017. This paper explores the impact of fear-of-missing-out of post-90s generation mobile users on romantic relationships in the context of social media. This is an important theory that explicates the underlying cognitive, psychological, and social processes of dark or negative sides of online information behaviour. Fear-of-missing-out of mobile users emerges. With the increasing information explosion and more cases of social media addiction, users have been always worried that they have missed some information. The widespread use of social media has a transformative effect on people’s work and lives.
Lin Wang, Su Yan, Yuhan Wang, Junping Qiu and Yuchen Zhang Do mobile social media undermine our romantic relationships? The influence of fear-of-missing-out on young people’s romantic relationships
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