Relationship Between Fear of Missing Out and Social Media Fatigue: Cross-Lagged Panel Design

作者：Xue Yao, Junzhe Zhao, Wenfan Chao, Dongdong Gao, Minghui Wang, Guoxiang Zhao · 发表于：Journal of Medical Internet Research · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.2196/75701 · 被引用次数：8 · 研究领域：Impact of Technology on Adolescents、Technostress in Professional Settings、COVID-19 and Mental Health

Background: In today's digital landscape, social media proliferation offers easier access to others' information and social activities but also introduces challenges such as social media fatigue (SMF). Previous studies have linked the fear of missing out (FoMO) to SMF; however, the directionality of this relationship remains unclear. Objective: This study aimed to explore the relationship between FoMO and SMF among college students and examine whether a mutually predictive relationship exists between them. Methods: This study adopted a longitudinal research design, administering questionnaires at two distinct time points (ie, T1 and T2) separated by a two-month interval. At T1, the questionnaire included demographic variables of the research subjects (student ID, name, gender, etc.), the Fear of Missing Out Scale, and the Social Media Fatigue Scale. At T2, the questionnaire consisted only of collecting demographic information (student ID and name) for matching, along with the same two scales. Following data collection, the datasets from the two time points were matched based on the demographic information; only successfully matched data were included in the final analyses. Subsequently, descriptive statistics and correlation analyses of FoMO and SMF at T1 and T2 were conducted using SPSS (version 26.0). Finally, a cross-lagged panel analysis was conducted using the FoMO and SMF at T1 and T2 to examine the autoregressive and cross-lagged relationships between the variables ove...