The relationship between Adult Attachment dimensions and social media addiction: the mediating role of fear of missing out
Subject Areas :Motahareh noori 1 , شهلا پاکدامن 2 , Pegah Nejat 3
1 - Shahid Beheshti University
2 - Shahid Beheshti University
3 - Faculty of Education and Psychology, shahid beheshti university
Keywords: adult attachment dimensions, social media addiction, fear of missing out,
Abstract :
This study aimed to investigate the mediation roll of fear of missing out in the relationship between adult attachmentُ dimensions and social media addiction for this purpose, a sample size of 444) 304 female, 140 male) Iranian adults aged 18 or above were selected by convenience sampling method. Participants filled out the Mobile-based Social Media Addition Scale (Khaje Ahmadi, Puladi & Bahreini, 2016), The Experience in Close Relationships-Revised Scale (Baek, Cho & Kim, 2014) and the Fear of Missing out Scale (Przybylski, Murayama, DeHaan & Gladwell, 2013). The result showed that anxious attachment dimension positively predict social media addiction, avoidant attachment dimension also positively predict social media addiction. Fear of missing out could only mediate the relationship between anxious attachment dimension and social media addiction moreover it was unexpected that neither dimension of adult attachment could moderate the relationship between the other dimension of attachment and fear of missing out and social media addiction.
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